unchildish

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adjective

Not childish.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

adjectiveunchildish (comparative more unchildish, superlative most unchildish)

comparative more unchildish · superlative most unchildish

  1. Not childish.
    1 more example

    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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APA

unchildish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unchildish

MLA

“unchildish.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unchildish. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unchildish,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unchildish.

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