Synonyms for infantile
ˈɪn fənˌtaɪl, -tɪlin·fan·tile

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1. infantileadjective

   Childish; immature.

   Synonyms:
   puerile

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. infantile

   Synonyms:
   puerile, childish, imbecile

   Antonyms:
   manly, mature, vigorous, robust

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. childish, infantileadjective

   indicating a lack of maturity

   "childish tantrums"; "infantile behavior"

   Synonyms:
   childish

   Antonyms:
   old, mature

2. infantileadjective

   of or relating to infants or infancy

   "infantile paralysis"

   Synonyms:
   childish

   Antonyms:
   mature, old

3. infantileadjective

   being or befitting or characteristic of an infant

   "infantile games"

   Synonyms:
   childish

   Antonyms:
   old, mature

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. infantileadjective

   Synonyms:
   childish, young, tender, childlike

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1. List of paraphrases for "infantile":

   infant, child

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1. Albert Einstein:

   Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

2. John Dingell:

   One of the advantages to knowing that your demise is imminent, and that reports of it will not be greatly exaggerated, is that you have a few moments to compose some parting thoughts, in our modern political age, the presidential bully pulpit seems dedicated to sowing division and denigrating, often in the most irrelevant and infantile personal terms, the political opposition.

3. Olive Schreiner:

   Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death.

4. Joseph de Maistre:

   Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.

5. Fritz Perls:

   To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.