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Synonyms for child-like

26 synonyms
5 antonyms
2 meanings

adjective

Most common

wide-eyed naive immature ingenuous childish infantile

Synonyms by meaning

Adjective

1. Naive — innocent and trustful; credulous; artless

naive, immature, wide-eyed, ingenuous, simple, guileless, innocent, unworldly, unsophisticated, artless, credulous, dewy-eyed, round-eyed, callow, candid, unaffected

2. Childish — of, like, or suitable for a child

childish, infantile, young, youthful, puerile, babyish, juvenile, kiddish informal rare, childly rare, infantine rare

Antonyms

old, grown-up, unchildlike

All antonyms of child-like →

Definitions

adj. 1
Innocent and trustful; credulous; artless.
adj. 2
Of, like, or suitable for a child.

Related words

Word family: childish
Other spellings: childlike

Example sentences

naive Tom isn't as naive as a lot of people think he is.
immature He was so immature, he couldn't resist the temptation.
ingenuous Mary is an ingenuous student.
childish Don't be saying that childish shit at the age of 30.
infantile "Left-Wing" communism is an infantile disorder.

By length

5 letters: young¹, naive²
6 letters: simple², candid², callow²
7 letters: puerile², artless, babyish³, kiddish, childly
8 letters: innocent³, juvenile³, immature³, childish², youthful²
9 letters: infantile³, credulous³, ingenuous⁴, guileless², unworldly, infantine
10 letters: unaffected⁴
15 letters: unsophisticated⁶

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (naive² = 2 syllables).