infantineadj.
/ˈɪnfəntʌɪn/ = infantile adj. 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > person > baby or infant > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of
babish1532
infantc1595
infantical1601
infantine1603
infantlya1640
infantile1696
nursling1793
the world > life > source or principle of life > age > youth > [adjective] > young (of beings)
littleeOE
youngOE
younglyOE
younglinga1250
little waxena1325
greena1398
imperfecta1398
primec1429
unold?1440
juvync1450
novelc1450
unaged1486
in youth's flowers?1507
unbearded1560
unweaned1581
whelpish1586
ungrown1593
under-age1594
unhatched1601
infantine1603
springalda1614
unbakeda1616
unlickeda1616
juvenile1625
lile1633
juvenal1638
bloomy1651
youngish1667
blooming1676
puerilea1680
youngerly1742
steerish1789
chota1814
white-shoe1960
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xi. 20 A demy-God..with an infantine face, yet fraught with an aged-like wisedome.
1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island i. viii. 3 These infantine beginnings gently bear.
1812 Burke's Abridgem. Eng. Hist. in Wks. V. 523 A degree of credulity next to infantine.
1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna ii. xxii. 43 What wert thou then? A child most infantine [rhyme divine].
1819 P. B. Shelley Lines Euganean Hills in Rosalind & Helen 84 Autumn's evening meets me soon, Leading the infantine moon.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. ix. vii. 472 The countenance..is so innocent and infantine, you would think this head belonged to a child of twelve.
1871 R. Browning Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau 127 Genius has somewhat of the infantine: But of the childish, not a touch or taint Except through self-will.
Derivatives
ˈinfantinely adv. in an infantine manner.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > person > baby or infant > [adverb]
infantinely1833
1833 J. S. Mill Lett. (1910) I. 77 A man singularly free..from self-consciousness; simple, graceful, at times almost infantinely playful.
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