| 单词 | childish |
| 释义 | childish (once / 417 pages) adj If you act immature or bratty, you're being childish. A childish dinner guest might pout because you didn't make dessert. While the adjective childish is sometimes used to simply mean "like a child," it's more common to use childlike in this way. When your teacher comments that your chattering during class is childish behavior, she means that you're acting as juvenile as a four year old child. This negative implication has been attached to childish since the 15th century. The word comes from the Old English cildisc, "proper to a child." WORD FAMILYchildish: childishest, childishly, childishness+/child: childhood, childish, childless, childlike, childly, children, childs/childhood: childhoods/childishness: childishnesses/childless: childlessly, childlessness/childlike: childlikely USAGE EXAMPLES“Sheriff Jones should be bringing this country together instead of staging childish publicity stunts,” she said. Washington Times(Dec 21, 2016) So if actors get upset, or they act childlike, or childish, or anything, I am totally sympathetic with them. Time(Dec 21, 2016) He wrote a note apologizing to his mother and saying “as childish as it sounds, I wish I was in your arms.” Washington Times(Dec 10, 2016) adj indicating a lack of maturity childish tantrums Syn infantile immature characteristic of a lack of maturity |
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