Meanings
comparative more unchildish · superlative most unchildish
- Not childish.
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But that doesn’t mean it has been easy for her to outgrow her former self. Ms. Rimes recently turned 25, and though she has always had a remarkably unchildish voice (her 1996 breakthrough single was a beautiful, Patsy Cline-ish song called “Blue”), she has spent much of this decade trying to figure out where she fits on the country-pop continuum.
2007 October 8, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times
Origin
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unchildish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unchildish
“unchildish.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unchildish. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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