childish
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 17
- Words With Friends
- 17
- Letters
- 8
/ˈt͡ʃaɪldɪʃ/
Definition of childish
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Immature in thought or behaviour.
“Your childish temper tantrums are not going to change my decision on this matter.”
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adj
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Immature in thought or behaviour.
“Your childish temper tantrums are not going to change my decision on this matter.”
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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!”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English childisch, from Old English ċildisċ. By surface analysis, child + -ish.
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