infantlike

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adjective

childlike

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Meanings

adjectiveinfantlike (comparative more infantlike, superlative most infantlike)

comparative more infantlike · superlative most infantlike

  1. childlike

    I know you can doe very little alone, for your / helpes are many, or elſe your actions would growe won- / derous ſingle : your abilities are to Infant-like, for dooing / much alone.

    c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 8, column 2

Origin

From infant + -like.

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APA

infantlike. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/infantlike

MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “infantlike,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/infantlike.

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