Childlike

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Childlike \Child"like`\ (ch[imac]ld"l[imac]k`), a.
     Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children;
     becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful. "Childlike
     obedience." --Hooker.
     [1913 Webster]
  


     Note: Childlike, as applied to persons grown up, is commonly
           in a good sense; as, childlike grace or simplicity;
           childlike modesty.
           [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  childlike
       adj 1: befitting a young child; "childlike charm" [syn: {childly}]
       2: exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity; "childlike
          trust"; "dewy-eyed innocence"; "simple courtesy" [syn: {wide-eyed},
           {dewy-eyed}, {simple}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  91 Moby Thesaurus words for "childlike":
     angelic, artless, babish, babyish, beardless, blameless, bluff,
     blunt, born yesterday, boyish, boylike, calflike, candid, childish,
     clear, coltish, confiding, credulous, decrepit, dependent,
     depending, direct, doddering, doddery, doited, doting, dovelike,
     faultless, frank, girlish, girllike, guileless, guiltless,
     immature, in the clear, incorrupt, infantile, infantine, ingenu,
     ingenuous, innocent, kiddish, lamblike, maiden, maidenly, naive,
     not guilty, offenseless, open, openhearted, outspoken, plain,
     prelapsarian, pristine, puerile, puplike, puppyish, puppylike,
     reliant, relying, reproachless, sans reproche, senile, simple,
     simplehearted, simpleminded, sincere, single-hearted,
     single-minded, sinless, trustful, trusting, trusty, unassuming,
     uncorrupted, undefiled, undissembling, unfallen, unguarded,
     unlapsed, unreserved, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unsuspicious,
     untouched by evil, unwary, with clean hands, without reproach,
     without suspicion, young, youthful