Childish Meaning
/ˈt͡ʃaɪldɪʃ/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjImmature in thought or behaviour.
adjSuitable for or expected of a child.
Sentence Examples
It is time you left off your childish ways.
Peter was fed up with childish girls.
CEFR Practice Quiz
His ____ behavior during the meeting embarrassed everyone and annoyed the boss.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I thought his behavior was very ____ for a man of his age tonight.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English childisch, from Old English ċildisċ. By surface analysis, child + -ish.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"She remembered, too, when, after a long childish illness, her father had carried her in his arms to the garden, […]"
— 1824, Susan Ferrier, The Inheritance, page 130:
"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!"
— 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
His ____ behavior during the meeting embarrassed everyone and annoyed the boss.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I thought his behavior was very ____ for a man of his age tonight.