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How to use infantile in a sentence

19 example sentences · adjective

Infantile means pertaining to infants. Example: “Infantile paralysis left him lame for the rest of his life.”

Examples of infantile by meaning

adjectivePertaining to infants.

  • They and the old North London tanks at Richmond long ago were the first engines on which my infantile eyes rested, be it said with an admiration that the years have never dimmed.1957 February, Henry Maxwell, “A Sentimental Journey”, in Railway Magazine, page 82
  • When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile.1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 9, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

More sentences with infantile

  • Infantile paralysis left him lame for the rest of his life.From the entry leave
  • (Unciferous branches used for infantile convulsions, high fever, headache, hypertension, blurred vision, dizziness.2012, Umberto Quattrocchi, CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and…. From the entry unciferous
  • They are clinging to infantile fantasies and show themselves unable to face reality."1947, Valentine Davies, chapter 10, in Miracle on 34th Street, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, page 63. From the entry Kris Kringle
  • Scores of sufferers from infantile paralysis sorrowfully bid farewell to their great friend and benefactor.1945 April 16, 0:38 from the start, in MP72-20 President Roosevelt’s Funeral and Procession; Truman – New President of U.S., Harry S.…. From the entry resting place
  • Yet he seemed not to be taking the usual infantile satisfaction in a very smart, correct costume.1920, Will Payne, The Scarred Chin, page 130. From the entry shiny
  • Just ask the doctors how many cases of infantile jaundice in newborn babies have this scene that particular week?2016, Dueep Jyot Singh, John Davidson, Knowing More About Jaundice - Prevention and Natural Cure Remedies of Jaundice, Mendon Cottage…. From the entry jaundice
  • The management of infantile pyknocytosis consists of phototherapy for jaundice and correction of anemia by packed red blood cells transfusion.2015 May 8, Mohamad El Nabouch et al., “Infantile pyknocytosis, a rare cause of hemolytic anemia in newborns: report of two cases in twin…. From the entry pyknocytosis
  • Research shows that the fandom is often harsh toward subgroups such as babyfurs, who enjoy behaving like young or infantile characters.2013, Amanda Sims, "Tails from the Underground", Echo (Columbia College Chicago), Winter/Spring 2013, page 62. From the entry babyfur
  • There’s another slightly more serious and persistent type of acne that affects some babies, called infantile acne or acne neonatorum.2010, Liebmann-Smith, Joan, Baby body signs : the head-to-toe guide to your child's health, from birth through the toddler years, page 162. From the entry acne neonatorum
  • Where the Henley heroine comes across as an awkward, desperate, emotionally battered womanchild, the knockoff's simply dumb, needy, and infantile.1988 February 12, Anthony Adler, “Send in the Hicks”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry womanchild
  • The phylism to which biastophilia and symphorophilia become attached is probably the ungovernable rage of an infantile temper tantrum.1986, John Money, Lovemaps, page 92. From the entry symphorophilia
  • If wit enhances meaning, this systematic reductiveness is antiwit, ultimately reduced to an infantile practical joke that backfires.1977, George deForest Lord, Heroic Mockery: Variations on Epic Themes from Homer to Joyce, page 74. From the entry antiwit
  • Autistic psychopathy (Asperger's syndrome) is a relatively static character disorder, unlike infantile autism which is a developing psychotic process.1973, William M. Easson, Lane A. Gerber, Marvin E. Gottlieb, Psychiatry Continuing Education Review, page 54. From the entry autistic psychopathy
  • Implementation A had sat paralyzed, a hoary, infantile widow in a house packed with undiscardable mementos, no more room to turn around.1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, Vintage (2019), page 87. From the entry undiscardable
  • I had had my beardal hair eradicated so that I could glory in a countenance of an infantile softness and an exquisite glabrity.1922, Earl Lind, edited by Alfred W. Herzog, The Female-Impersonators, Part 4. From the entry glabrity
  • The field, then, is open to re-examination, and the recent phenomenon of conlanging is evidence that the art of inventing languages is neither lunatic nor infantile.2000, Sarah L. Higley, “Audience, Uglossia, and CONLANG: Inventing Languages on the Internet”, in M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture…. From the entry conlanging
  • And in a normaller company it would be the wardrobe room, too, but costumery is my infantile name for it and the actors go along with my little whims.1963, Fritz Leiber, “No Great Magic”, in Galaxy Magazine, volume 22, New York, N.Y.: Galaxy Publishing Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page…. From the entry normaller

Meaning of infantile

  1. adjective Pertaining to infants.
  2. adjective Childish; immature.

Full definition of infantile

Questions about infantile in a sentence

How do you use infantile in a sentence?
Infantile is used as an adjective. For example: “Infantile paralysis left him lame for the rest of his life.”
What is a short sentence with infantile?
“Infantile paralysis left him lame for the rest of his life.”
What does infantile mean?
Infantile means pertaining to infants.

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