Meaning of INFANTILE
| Pronunciation: | | 'infun`tIl
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- [adj] indicating a lack of maturity; "childish tantrums"; "infantile behavior"
- [adj] being or befitting or characteristic of an infant; "baby rabbits"
- [adj] of or relating to infants or infancy; "infantile paralysis"
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| | Synonyms: | | baby(a), childish, immature, infant(a), young |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In"fan*tile\ (?; 277), a. [L. infantilis: cf. F.
infantile. See {Infant}.]
Of or pertaining to infancy, or to an infant; similar to, or
characteristic of, an infant; childish; as, infantile
behavior.
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| | Definition: | | the period in an individual's life cycle from birth to the eruption of the first permanent teeth. |
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| | Related Terms: | | abecedarian, aboriginal, antenatal, autochthonous, babish, baby, babyish, beginning, budding, childish, childlike, creative, dollish, doll-like, elemental, elementary, embryonic, fetal, formative, foundational, fundamental, gestatory, immature, in arms, in diapers, in embryo, in its infancy, in nappies, in swaddling clothes, in the bud, in the cradle, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, incunabular, infant, infantine, initial, initiative, initiatory, introductory, inventive, juvenile, kittenish, nascent, natal, neonatal, newborn, original, parturient, postnatal, pregnant, prenatal, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, procreative, puerile, rudimental, rudimentary, ur |
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