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childlike
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective childlike has 2 senses
- childlike(s = adj.all) childly - befitting a young child; "childlike charm"
- childlike(s = adj.all) dewy-eyed, round-eyed, simple, wide-eyed - exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity; "childlike trust"; "dewy-eyed innocence"; "listened in round-eyed wonder"
CIDE DICTIONARY
childlike, a.
Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful. Hooker. [1913 Webster]
" Childlike, as applied to persons grown up, is commonly in a good sense; as, childlike grace or simplicity; childlike modesty."
[1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
childlike, adj. having the good qualities of a child as innocence, frankness, etc.
THESAURUS
childlike
angelic, artless, babish, babyish, beardless, blameless, bluff, blunt, born yesterday, boyish, boylike, calflike, candid, childish, clear, coltish, confiding, credulous, decrepit, dependent, depending, direct, doddering, doddery, doited, doting, dovelike, faultless, frank, girlish, girllike, guileless, guiltless, immature, in the clear, incorrupt, infantile, infantine, ingenu, ingenuous, innocent, kiddish, lamblike, maiden, maidenly, naive, not guilty, offenseless, open, openhearted, outspoken, plain, prelapsarian, pristine, puerile, puplike, puppyish, puppylike, reliant, relying, reproachless, sans reproche, senile, simple, simplehearted, simpleminded, sincere, single-hearted, single-minded, sinless, trustful, trusting, trusty, unassuming, uncorrupted, undefiled, undissembling, unfallen, unguarded, unlapsed, unreserved, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, untouched by evil, unwary, with clean hands, without reproach, without suspicion, young, youthful
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