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Definition of Childlike
1. Adjective. Befitting a young child. "Childlike charm"
2. Adjective. Exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity. "Listened in round-eyed wonder"
Similar to: Naif, Naive
Derivative terms: Simpleness, Simplicity
Definition of Childlike
1. a. Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful.
Definition of Childlike
1. Adjective. innocent and trustful; credulous; artless ¹
2. Adjective. of, like, or suitable for a child; meek; submissive ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Childlike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Childlike
Literary usage of Childlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"These truths are set down not in dogmatic form, but now in the simple and childlike
lyric yearning of the ingenuous soul, again in the loftiest and most ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1867)
"In England, grown-up persons of the most pleasant kind are seldom or never childlike.
The charm of simplicity may last into maturity, though even that is ..."
3. Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge by Sara (Coleridge) Coleridge, Edith Coleridge (1873)
"A Pet Name—childlike Playfulness of Aristophanes—Theological Readings of SC—The
Miracle of Gadara—The Origin of Mental Disorders not a Religious but a ..."
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