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CHILDISH
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Indicating a lack of maturity
Example:
infantile behavior
Synonyms:
childish; infantile
Classified under:
Similar:
immature (characteristic of a lack of maturity)
Derivation:
childishness (a property characteristic of a child)
Context examples:
The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Equally childish.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
All this time he had been feeling the stuff of my jacket, smoothing my hands, looking at my boots, and generally, in the intervals of his speech, showing a childish pleasure in the presence of a fellow creature.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Oh, it is childish.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Childish and slender creature!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Now, my own Dora, said I, you are very childish, and are talking nonsense.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Like the savage, the attitude of these men was stoical in great things, childish in little things.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I have no sympathy with these childish games.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It went from hand to hand, one tearing it from another; and by the oaths and the cries and the childish laughter with which they accompanied their examination, you would have thought, not only they were fingering the very gold, but were at sea with it, besides, in safety.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
My temper was sometimes violent, and my passions vehement; but by some law in my temperature they were turned not towards childish pursuits but to an eager desire to learn, and not to learn all things indiscriminately.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
