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infantine

infantine adjective: infantile; childish.

Adjective

infantine (comparative more infantine, superlative most infantine)

  1. Infantile; childish.
    • Man, because he could not but acknowledge the majesty of Nature, fell into childish exultation at his acquired and still-increasing dominion over her elements. Even while he stalked a God in his own fancy, an infantine imbecility came over him.1840, Edgar Allan Poe, The Colloquy of Monos and Una
    • I saw Peggy with the infantine procession at her tail, marching with great dignity towards the stall of a neighbouring lollipop-woman.1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 23, in Vanity Fair
    Synonyms:
    milky, puerile

infantine meaning in Hindi and Urdu

infantine in Hindi

infantine
किशोरा kiśorā

infantine in Urdu

infantine
کشورا kišorā

Synonyms of infantine

Forms of infantine

comparativemore infantine
superlativemost infantine

Origin of infantine

From French infantin, variant of enfantin.

Questions about infantine

What does infantine mean?
Infantine means infantile; childish.
What is infantine in Hindi?
Infantine in Hindi is किशोरा (kiśorā). See Infantine meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is infantine?
Infantine is an adjective.

Words near infantine in the dictionary

  1. infantilized
  2. infantilizer
  3. infantilizers
  4. infantilizes
  5. infantilizing
  6. infantine
  7. infanting
  8. Infantino
  9. Infantinos
  10. infantize
  11. infantized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: infantine (page history and authors); किशोरा (Hindi) (page history and authors); کشورا (Urdu) (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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