infantile
infantile
Definition
in·fan·tile (in′fən tīl′, -til)
adjective
- of or having to do with infants or infancy
- like, suitable for, or characteristic of an infant; babyish; childish or childlike; immature
- in the earliest stage of development
Etymology: L infantilis
infantile
Synonyms
infantile
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- spasm: Early treatment of infantile spasm might preserve cognitive functioning in some children.
- colic: However, they have no place in the treatment of infantile colic.
- esotropia: Early surgery for infantile esotropia; results and influence of age upon results.
- paralysis: In Turkey they found people who called infantile paralysis ' the American disease ' .
- scurvy: In 1877 he was the first to define a then mysterious childhood disease, which he named ' infantile scurvy ' .
- eczema: Children who suffer from infantile eczema tend to have dry skin.
Modifying Another Word
- not: This is basic playground psychology, and the media is nothing if not infantile.
- almost: Without a spirit of childhood in the listener, the music of the Catalan Federico Mompou can seem almost infantile.
- even: The basic Mormon belief is one that comes out of the morning of the earth, from the most primitive and even infantile attitude.
- so: The point about fairies etc is so infantile in logic I can barely contain my disbelief.
- quite: Indeed, as cities go, Grahamstown may be called quite infantile.
- too: James Ballantyne concurred, judging the tone of the opening chapters alternately too historical and too infantile.
Used with adjective complement
infantile Quotes
Bad as our urban conditions often are, there isnot a slum in the country which has a third of the infantile death- rate of the royal family in the middle ages.
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