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unchildish

unchildish adjective: not childish.

Adjective

unchildish (comparative more unchildish, superlative most unchildish)

  1. Not childish.
    • But that doesn’t mean it has been easy for her to outgrow her former self. Ms. Rimes recently turned 25, and though she has always had a remarkably unchildish voice (her 1996 breakthrough single was a beautiful, Patsy Cline-ish song called “Blue”), she has spent much of this decade trying to figure...2007 October 8, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times

Forms of unchildish

comparativemore unchildish
superlativemost unchildish

Origin of unchildish

From un- + childish.

Words formed from unchildish

Questions about unchildish

What does unchildish mean?
Unchildish means not childish.
What part of speech is unchildish?
Unchildish is an adjective.

Words near unchildish in the dictionary

  1. unchidingly
  2. unchiefly
  3. unchild
  4. unchilded
  5. unchilding
  6. unchildish
  7. unchildishly
  8. unchildishness
  9. unchildlike
  10. unchildly
  11. unchilds

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