1 connected with or typical of a child:
childish handwriting
2 (disapproving) (of an adult) behaving in a stupid or silly way
SYNIMMATURE:
Don't be so childish!
compareCHILDLIKE
childishly adverb:
to behave childishly
childishness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for childish is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is childish a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, childish is tagged as adjective.
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