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Synonyms & Antonyms of childlike
resembling or suggesting a child; like that of a child
- a childlike honesty
- He had a childlike innocence that others found endearing.
Synonyms & Near Synonyms for childlike
- dewy-eyed,
- gee-whiz,
- impressionable,
- inexperienced,
- malleable,
- persuadable,
- persuasible,
- simpleminded,
- unsophisticated,
- unworldly,
- wide-eyed
- artless,
- genuine,
- guileless,
- honest,
- ingenuous,
- innocent,
- naive
- (or naïve),
- natural,
- real,
- simple,
- sincere,
- true,
- unaffected,
- unpretending,
- unpretentious
- candid,
- direct,
- frank,
- free,
- free-spoken,
- open,
- openhearted,
- plain,
- plainspoken,
- single-minded,
- straight,
- straightforward,
- unguarded
- exploitable,
- gullible
- (also gullable),
- susceptible,
- unwary
Antonyms & Near Antonyms for childlike
- arch,
- calculating,
- canny,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- designing,
- foxy,
- knavish,
- scheming,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- subtle,
- tricky,
- underhanded,
- wily
- affected,
- artful,
- artificial,
- assuming,
- dishonest,
- dissembling,
- dissimulating,
- fake,
- false,
- guileful,
- insincere,
- phony
- (also phoney),
- pretentious
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'Childlike' vs. 'Childish'
'Childlike' vs. 'Childish'
The words have very different connotations
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The first known use of childlike was in 1577
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