'Childlike' definitions:
Definition of 'childlike'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Befitting a young child; "childlike charm" [syn: childlike, childly]
adjective
Exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity; "childlike trust"; "dewy-eyed innocence"; "listened in round-eyed wonder" [syn: childlike, wide-eyed, round-eyed, dewy- eyed, simple]
Definition of 'Childlike'
From: GCIDE
- Childlike \Child"like`\ (ch[imac]ld"l[imac]k`), a. Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful. "Childlike obedience." --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Childlike, as applied to persons grown up, is commonly in a good sense; as, childlike grace or simplicity; childlike modesty. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'childlike'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- angelic,
- artless,
- babish,
- babyish,
- beardless,
- blameless,
- bluff,
- blunt,
- born yesterday,
- boyish,
- boylike,
- calflike,
- candid,
- childish,
- clear,
- coltish,
- confiding,
- credulous,
- decrepit,
- dependent,
- depending,
- direct,
- doddering,
- doddery,
- doited,
- doting,
- dovelike,
- faultless,
- frank,
- girlish,
- girllike,
- guileless,
- guiltless,
- immature,
- in the clear,
- incorrupt,
- infantile,
- infantine,
- ingenu,
- ingenuous,
- innocent,
- kiddish,
- lamblike,
- maiden,
- maidenly,
- naive,
- not guilty,
- offenseless,
- open,
- openhearted,
- outspoken,
- plain,
- prelapsarian,
- pristine,
- puerile,
- puplike,
- puppyish,
- puppylike,
- reliant,
- relying,
- reproachless,
- sans reproche,
- senile,
- simple,
- simplehearted,
- simpleminded,
- sincere,
- single-hearted,
- single-minded,
- sinless,
- trustful,
- trusting,
- trusty,
- unassuming,
- uncorrupted,
- undefiled,
- undissembling,
- unfallen,
- unguarded,
- unlapsed,
- unreserved,
- unsophisticated,
- unsuspecting,
- unsuspicious,
- untouched by evil,
- unwary,
- with clean hands,
- without reproach,
- without suspicion,
- young,
- youthful