childish
Syllables: child·ish/ˈt͡ʃaɪldɪʃ/
childish adjective: immature in thought or behaviour.
Adjective
childish (comparative more childish, superlative most childish)
- Immature in thought or behaviour.
- Your childish temper tantrums are not going to change my decision on this matter.
- Other instances of primitive thought are the childish belief that science in the future will be able 'objectively' to predict the date of social revolutions in the light of technological development, or the 'scientific law' that people write books, or baseless fantasies on the origin of religion...1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozkład (in...
- Synonyms:
- infantile
- 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
- Synonyms:
- childly
childish meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
childish in Hindi
- childish
- शैशव śaiśav, गबरू gabrū, तिफ़लाना tiflānā, तिफ़्लाना tiflānā
childish in Tamil
- சிறுபிள்ளைத்தனமான, விளையாட்டுத் தன்மையுள்ள, குழந்தைத்தனமான
childish in Urdu
- childish
- مورکھ mūrkh
childish in Bengali
- childish, immature, babyish
- বাচ্চা bacca
More languagesFewer languages
- childish in Malayalam
- ബാലിശ bāliśa, ബാലിശമായ bāliśamāya
- childish in Kannada
- ಮಕ್ಕಳಿಗೆ ತಕ್ಕ, ಬಾಲೋಚಿತ, ಅಪಕ್ವ, ಬಾಲಿಶ
- childish in Gujarati
- છોકરમત chokarmat
- childish in Sanskrit
- शैशव śaiśava, बाल bāla
- childish in Tagalog
- isip-bata
- childish in Arabic
- طُفُولِيّ ṭufūliyy
- childish in Indonesian
- kekanak-kanakan
- childish in Persian
- بچهگانه bečče-gâne
Examples of childish in a sentence
- His behavior was unusual in that it was considered childish for a man of his age.
- Can't we all sit down and discuss this adultly, without the childish name-calling?
- I think a lot of people are upset, and they’re acting childish.”
Synonyms of childish
Antonyms
Forms of childish
| comparative | more childish |
|---|---|
| superlative | most childish |
Origin of childish
From Middle English childisch, from Old English ċildisċ. By surface analysis, child + -ish.
Words formed from childish
Words that rhyme with childish
Questions about childish
- What does childish mean?
- Childish means immature in thought or behaviour.
- What is childish in Hindi?
- Childish in Hindi is शैशव (śaiśav), गबरू (gabrū), तिफ़लाना (tiflānā). See Childish meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is childish?
- Childish is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce childish?
- Childish is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃaɪldɪʃ/.
Words near childish in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: childish (page history and authors); गबरू (Hindi) (page history and authors); childish (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); مورکھ (Urdu) (page history and authors); বাচ্চা (Bengali) (page history and authors); childish (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); છોકરમત (Gujarati) (page history and authors); बाल (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). 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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