Word Meanings - CHILDISHLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In the manner of a child; in a trifling way; in a weak or foolish manner.
Related words: (words related to CHILDISHLY)
- 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.