as in immature
having or showing the annoying qualities (as silliness) associated with children
you almost spoiled the ceremony for everyone with your childish giggling
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Recent Examples of childish
And anybody that thinks otherwise is just being foolish and immature and childish.
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ABC News, 13 Apr. 2025
But don’t think of this as a childish experience.
—Yvette Walker, Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 2025
That was a childish goal of the sort that had led her to challenge deëxtinction for so many years.
—D. T. Max, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
That was arrogant and childish.
—Amelia Tait, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2025
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ABC News, 13 Apr. 2025
But don’t think of this as a childish experience.
—Yvette Walker, Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 2025
That was a childish goal of the sort that had led her to challenge deëxtinction for so many years.
—D. T. Max, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
That was arrogant and childish.
—Amelia Tait, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for childish
Adjective
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This doesn’t sound like their mess to clean up, and just sounds a bit immature/entitled.—
Latoya Gayle,
People.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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Children and adults pick up an avalanche of unreliable information on social media, and children may process it with immature judgment.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Starring Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney as the sparring, intellectual parents to two adolescent sons (Jesse Eisenberg and Owen Kline), The Squid and the Whale responds to some of Baumbach’s own experiences as a product of divorce in the 1980s.—
Marley Marius,
Vogue,
30 Apr. 2025
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One of the main jobs of the adolescent human is to pull away from their parents in preparation for adulthood.—
Cyndy Etler,
Hartford Courant,
28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Both Mike and Harriet were juvenile commissioners assigned by the city of San Francisco to mentor boys and girls.—
Erin Moriarty, Liza Finley,
CBS News,
4 May 2025
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Portage Police were contacted April 30 by a juvenile girl, who was an ex-girlfriend of Conley’s.—
Jim Woods,
Chicago Tribune,
2 May 2025
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“Childish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/childish. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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