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ˈbɔɪ ɪʃboy·ish

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  1. boyish

    Boyish, childish, and girlish are used in a good sense of those to whom they properly belong, but in a bad sense of those from whom more maturity is to be expected; childish eagerness or glee is pleasing in a child, but unbecoming in a man; puerile in modern use is distinctly contemptuous. Juvenile and youthful are commonly used in a favorable and kindly sense in their application to those still young; youthful in the sense of having the characteristics of youth, hence fresh, vigorous, light-hearted, buoyant, may have a favorable import as applied to any age, as when we say the old man still retains his youthful ardor, vigor, or hopefulness; juvenile in such use would belittle the statement. Young is distinctively applied to those in the early stage of life or not arrived at maturity. Compare NEW.

    Compare synonyms for OLD.

    Synonyms:
    adolescent, callow, childish, childlike, girlish, immature, juvenile, puerile, young, youthful

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. boyish, boylike, schoolboyishadjective

    befitting or characteristic of a young boy

    "a boyish grin"; "schoolboyish pranks"

    Synonyms:
    boylike, schoolboyish

    Antonyms:
    old

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  1. boyishadjective

    Synonyms:
    of boyhood

  2. boyishadjective

    Synonyms:
    childish, puerile

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  1. boyishadjective

    Synonyms:
    juvenile, immature, childish, youthful

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  1. List of paraphrases for "boyish":

    childish

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Words popularity by usage frequency

rankingword
#571young
#5790juvenile
#9386adolescent
#21772youthful
#22794immature
#28446childish
#57800childlike
#64362boyish
#69701callow
#90000girlish
#119384puerile

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  1. Eddie Redmayne:

    She talked in depth and wonderful detail about [Elbe's] art and also extraordinary things about that period. How architecture had gotten more feminine with Art Nouveau, how the notions of gender were beginning to change in the 1920s, with women's clothing becoming more boyish and haircuts getting shorter. She was just so articulate on so many subjects.

  2. Giambattista Valli:

    I wanted to share the vision of the girl that I've seen these last 20 years that I've been living in Paris, this boyish attitude, independent, unique and at the same time very seductive, very free.

  3. Ronald Reagan:

    Shouldn't someone tag Mr Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx-first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother.


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