childish
adj/ˈt͡ʃaɪldɪʃ/
Etymology From Middle English childisch, from Old English ċildisċ. By surface analysis, child + -ish.
1
Immature in thought or behaviour.
- Your childish temper tantrums are not going to change my decision on this matter.
2
Suitable for or expected of a child.
- This game is very childish.
- She remembered, too, when, after a long childish illness, her father had carried her in his arms to the garden, […]1824, Susan Ferrier, The Inheritance, page 130:
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- As I walked to and fro daily between Southwark and Blackfriars, and lounged about at meal-times in obscure streets, the stones of which may, for anything I know, be worn at this moment by my childish feet, I wonder how many of these people were wanting in the crowd that used to come filing before me in review again, to the echo of Captain Hopkins’s voice!1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
- Synonyms
- infantile, immature, silly, unbecoming, juvenile, puerile, childly, kiddish, child, babish, babyish, bairnish, childish, dootsie, hissy, lactifluous, infantine, milky
- Derived terms
- childishly, childishness, overchildish, unchildish
- Related terms
- childlike
- Hypernyms
- childlike, unsuitable, young