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babyish

UK/ˈbeɪbiɪʃ/

babyish adjective: like or suitable for a baby or a young child; childish.

Adjective

babyish (comparative more babyish, superlative most babyish)

  1. Like or suitable for a baby or a young child; childish
    • For a young man, he has the most babyish voice I've heard.
    • Clothes like these are too babyish for a child his age.

babyish meaning in Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

babyish in Urdu

بچکانہ, طفلانہ

babyish in Bengali

শিশুসুলভ

babyish in Malayalam

infantile, childish, immature
ബാലസഹജമായ, ശിശുസഹജമായ, ബാല്യ, ബാലപ്രകൃതിയുള്ള, അപക്വമായ, മൂപ്പെത്താത്ത

Synonyms of babyish

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All synonyms of babyish

Forms of babyish

comparativemore babyish
superlativemost babyish

Origin of babyish

From baby + -ish.

Words formed from babyish

Questions about babyish

What does babyish mean?
Babyish means like or suitable for a baby or a young child; childish.
What is babyish in Urdu?
Babyish in Urdu is بچکانہ, طفلانہ. See Babyish meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is babyish?
Babyish is an adjective.
How do you pronounce babyish?
Babyish is pronounced /ˈbeɪbiɪʃ/ (UK).

Words near babyish in the dictionary

  1. babyhood
  2. babyhoods
  3. babying
  4. babying up
  5. babyings
  6. babyish
  7. babyishly
  8. babyishness
  9. babyism
  10. babyisms
  11. babykiller

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: babyish (page history and authors); babyish (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); babyish (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); babyish (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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