childish

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
17
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈt͡ʃaɪldɪʃ/

Definition of childish

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Immature in thought or behaviour.
    “Your childish temper tantrums are not going to change my decision on this matter.”
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adj

  1. Immature in thought or behaviour.
    “Your childish temper tantrums are not going to change my decision on this matter.”
  2. Suitable for or expected of a child.
    “This game is very childish.”
    “She remembered, too, when, after a long childish illness, her father had carried her in his arms to the garden, […]”
    “As I walked to and fro daily between Southwark and Blackfriars, and lounged about at meal-times in obscure streets, the stones of which may, for anything I know, be worn at this moment by my childish feet, I wonder how many of these people were wanting in the crowd that used to come filing before me in review again, to the echo of Captain Hopkins’s voice!”

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Etymology

From Middle English childisch, from Old English ċildisċ. By surface analysis, child + -ish.

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