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childlike
Synonyms and Antonyms of childlike
- a childlike honesty
- He had a childlike innocence that others found endearing.
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
spontaneous, unforced, unstudied
candid, direct, frank, free, free-spoken, open, openhearted, plain, plainspoken, single-minded, straight, straightforward, unguarded
exploitable, gullible (also gullable), susceptible, unwary
cosmopolitan, sophisticated, worldly, worldly-wise
critical, cynical, mistrustful, skeptical, suspicious, wary
civilized, cultivated, cultured, polished, refined, seasoned
crooked, deceitful, deceptive, devious, double-dealing, hypocritical, manipulative, two-faced
arch, calculating, canny, crafty, cunning, designing, foxy, knavish, scheming, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, subtle, tricky, underhanded, wily
flattering, mealymouthed, smooth, sycophantic, unctuous
affected, artful, artificial, assuming, dishonest, dissembling, dissimulating, fake, false, guileful, insincere, phony (also phoney), pretentious
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