childlikeadjective
uk/ˈtʃaɪld.laɪk/us/ˈtʃaɪld.laɪk/(of adults) showing the good qualities that children have, such as trusting people, being honest and enthusiastic:
a childlike innocence/quality
All her life she had a childlike trust in other people.
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Naive & trusting
- an easy touch idiom
- be easy game/meat idiom
- be easy prey idiom
- be wet behind the ears idiom
- butter
- easy
- idealist
- impressionable
- ingenuous
- jejune
- prey
- pushover
- see things in black and white idiom
- simple
- soft touch
- sucker
- unsophisticated
- unsuspecting
- wet
- wide-eyed
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