Childlike
['tʃaɪl(d)laɪk] or ['tʃaɪldlaɪk]
Definition
(adj.) befitting a young child; 'childlike charm' .
(adj.) exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity; 'childlike trust'; 'dewy-eyed innocence'; 'listened in round-eyed wonder' .
Edited by Antony--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful.
Editor: Mary
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Docile, meek, submissive, dutiful.
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Examples
- Dorothea's voice, as she made this childlike picture of what she would do, might have been almost taken as a proof that she could do it effectively. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Dorothea, with all her eagerness to know the truths of life, retained very childlike ideas about marriage. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Open-mindedness means retention of the childlike attitude; closed-mindedness means premature intellectual old age. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Oh, that would not do--that would be worse than anything, she said with a more childlike despondency, while the tears rolled down. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Does not your heart yearn towards her when she pours into your ear her pure, childlike confidences? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- There was something childlike about her, trustful and deferential, like a child. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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