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Word Meanings - CHILDISHLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In the manner of a child; in a trifling way; in a weak or foolish manner.

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  • CHILDSHIP
    The state or relation of being a child.
  • CHILDISHNESS
    The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
  • CHILDED
    Furnished with a child.
  • CHILDBIRTH
    The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.
  • CHILDISH
    1. Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. "Childish innocence." Macaulay. 2. Peurile; trifling; weak. Methinks that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent. Addison. Note: Childish, as applied tc persons who
  • CHILD STUDY
    A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.
  • TRIFLE
    trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
  • TRIFLORAL; TRIFLOROUS
    Three-flowered; having or bearing three flowers; as, a triflorous peduncle.
  • CHILDCROWING
    The crowing noise made by children affected with spasm of the laryngeal muscles; false croup.
  • TRIFLING
    Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair. -- Tri"fling*ly, adv. -- Tri"fling*ness, n.
  • TRIFLER
    One who trifles. Waterland.
  • MANNERIST
    One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
  • TRIFLUCTUATION
    A concurrence of three waves. "A trifluctuation of evils." Sir T. Browne.
  • MANNERISM
    Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
  • CHILDBED
    The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.
  • CHILDISHLY
    In the manner of a child; in a trifling way; in a weak or foolish manner.
  • CHILDREN
    pl. of Child.
  • CHILDING
    Bearing Children; productive; fruitful. Shak.
  • FOOLISHNESS
    1. The quality of being foolish. 2. A foolish practice; an absurdity. The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness. 1 Cor. i. 18.
  • CHILDHOOD
    1. The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty. I have walked before you from my childhood. 1. Sam. xii. 2. 2. Children, taken collectively. The well-governed childhood of this
  • GODCHILD
    One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather.
  • UNMANNERLY
    Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
  • STEPCHILD
    1. A bereaved child; one who has lost father or mother. 2. A son or daughter of one's wife or husband by a former marriage.
  • GREAT-GRANDCHILD
    The child of one's grandson or granddaughter.
  • OVERMANNER
    In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.

 

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