infantile

Speech parts

1. infantile - Adjective

2. infantile - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of or pertaining to infancy, or to an infant; similar to, or characteristic of, an infant; childish; as, infantile behavior.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

childish puerile milky callow new original little young beginning initial child vernal kiddy green minor
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Antonyms

gray old ancient classical BIG grown
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Phrases with the word

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Examples

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind. Albert Einstein

Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love." Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you. Erich Fromm

United States: .... A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies. John Ralston Saul

Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence. Bill Maher

In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual pleasures as though they were sensual pleasures. This is what Europe offered, or was said to offer. Saul Bellow

You cannot over estimate how infantile men are about sex! Men are people that have sex BECAUSE they have a headache... or are on fire, or have been shot in the head, or whatever it is! Dylan Moran

Close letter words and terms

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