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childhoodlike

childhoodlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of childhood.

Adjective

childhoodlike (comparative more childhoodlike, superlative most childhoodlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of childhood.
    • Society prefers to keep handicapped people in a childhoodlike state, thereby ignoring sexual needs.1985, Pat Nuse Clark, Pat Nuse Pratt, Anne S. Allen, Occupational therapy for children

Forms of childhoodlike

comparativemore childhoodlike
superlativemost childhoodlike

Origin of childhoodlike

From childhood + -like.

Questions about childhoodlike

What does childhoodlike mean?
Childhoodlike means resembling or characteristic of childhood.
What part of speech is childhoodlike?
Childhoodlike is an adjective.

Words near childhoodlike in the dictionary

  1. childhood disintegrative disorder
  2. childhood friends
  3. childhood memories
  4. childhood memory
  5. childhoodless
  6. childhoodlike
  7. childhoods
  8. childie
  9. childies
  10. childification
  11. childing

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