infantile
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Mid-15th century, "pertaining to infants," from Latin infantilis (“pertaining to an infant”), from īnfāns. Sense of "infant-like" is from 1772.[1]
AdjectiveEdit
infantile (comparative more infantile, superlative most infantile)
- Pertaining to infants.
- infantile paralysis
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 9, in The China Governess[1]:
- Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all.
- Childish; immature.
SynonymsEdit
- (childish): puerile, milky; see also Thesaurus:childish
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
pertaining to infants
childish; immature
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ReferencesEdit
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2022), “infantile”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
infantile (plural infantiles)
Derived termsEdit
See alsoEdit
Further readingEdit
- “infantile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin infantilis.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
infantile (plural infantili)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- infantile in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
AnagramsEdit
SwedishEdit
AdjectiveEdit
infantile