childlike
pronunciation
How to pronounce childlike in British English:
UK [ˈtʃaɪldlaɪk]
How to pronounce childlike in American English:
US [ˈtʃaɪldˌlaɪk]
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- Adjective:
- befitting a young child
- exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity
Word Origin
- childlike (adj.)
- 1580s, "proper to a child," from child + like (adj.). Meaning "like a child" in a good sense (distinguished from childish) is from 1738.
Example
- 1. The truth is usually more childlike than they imagine .
- 2. It exposed jackson 's childlike nature and emotional pain .
- 3. I remembered that childlike yay , and I smiled the second I heard it .
- 4. She might talk with childlike wonder about her newly married state , but heidi is clearly made of steely stuff .
- 5. To live in the past , react in a childlike manner to situations when we are adults is not right .