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Synonyms for infantile
ˈɪn fənˌtaɪl, -tɪlin·fan·tile
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infantileadjective
Childish; immature.
Synonyms:
puerile
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Princeton's WordNet
childish, infantileadjective
indicating a lack of maturity
"childish tantrums"; "infantile behavior"
Synonyms:
childishinfantileadjective
of or relating to infants or infancy
"infantile paralysis"
Synonyms:
childishinfantileadjective
being or befitting or characteristic of an infant
"infantile games"
Synonyms:
childish
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#655 | child | |
#5082 | infant | |
#28446 | childish | |
#45233 | infantile | |
#98357 | imbecile | |
#119384 | puerile |
How to use infantile in a sentence?
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge
Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
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.
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.
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