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What is another word for childish?

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Of or like a child, suggestive or characterized by youth

Naive or innocent as a child would be

Annoyingly or embarrassingly immature in nature or behavior

Lacking sense, meaning, or purpose

Silly, especially in a childish way

Overly simple, especially in terms of how an issue or problem deserves to be treated

Having or showing an irritable disposition

Engaging in childish misbehavior

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Of or like a child, suggestive or characterized by youth

in the springtime of life

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“At other times, it provokes genuine, childish delight, the wonderment of having stumbled across a secret.”

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Naive or innocent as a child would be

like a babe in the woods

readily swallowing whole

in the experimental stage

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“I observed a childish wonder in his eyes and his playful laughter as he enjoyed his music.”

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Annoyingly or embarrassingly immature in nature or behavior

“Alexia followed behind him meekly, feeling dumb for her childish outburst.”

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Lacking sense, meaning, or purpose

devoid of intelligence

not the full shilling

thick as two short planks

barmy

dead from the neck up

as thick as two short planks

not the sharpest tool in the box

not the sharpest tool in the shed

insensate

not the sharpest knife in the drawer

a brick short of a load

not intelligent

wet behind the ears

pie-faced

two sandwiches short of a picnic

dumb as a box of rocks

dumb as a bag of hammers

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Silly, especially in a childish way

flakey^US

flaky^UK

with a mind like a sieve

not the full shilling

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Overly simple, especially in terms of how an issue or problem deserves to be treated

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Having or showing an irritable disposition

cavilling^UK

caviling^US

ill-humored^US

like a bear with a sore head

having got out of bed the wrong side

foul-tempered

cross-grained

having got out of bed on the wrong side

as cross as two sticks

humourless^UK

humorless^US

apt to fly off the handle

got up on wrong side of bed

criticizing^US

criticising^UK

like a cat on a hot tin roof

sombre^UK

somber^US

having a fit of the sulks

having a chip on one's shoulder

like a fish out of water

have chip on shoulder

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Engaging in childish misbehavior

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