childlike

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

• befitting a young child
  • "childlike charm"
• exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity
  • "childlike trust"

Adj

• Innocent and trustful; credulous; artless.
• Of, like, or suitable for a child.

Synonyms

artless, bairnlike, born yesterday, childish, childlike, childly, clueless, credulous, cute, dewy-eyed, fleeceable, green, guileless, immature, ingenuous, innocent, jejune, juvenile, juvey, kiddish, Panglossian, Panglossic, quaint, round-eyed, simple, simple-hearted, simple-minded, starry-eyed, unaffected, undesigning, unpretentious, unsophisticated, untested, unworldly, virgin, wet behind the ears, wide-eyed

Antonyms

adultlike, grown up, nonchildlike, unchildlike

Related Words

childish, naive, young