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Antonyms for infantine
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : in-fuh n-tahyn, -tin |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɪn fənˌtaɪn, -tɪn |
Definition of infantine
- As in infant/infantile : adj very young
- As in childish : adj immature, silly
- As in immature : adj young, inexperienced
- Lucy had not liked Ratia so little since the days of her infantine tyranny.
- Extract from : « Hopes and Fears » by Charlotte M. Yonge
- Okiok was gazing at him, however, with an air of the most infantine simplicity and deference.
- Extract from : « Red Rooney » by R.M. Ballantyne
- We cannot, of course, convey the slightest idea of the infantine Eskimo lisp.
- Extract from : « Red Rooney » by R.M. Ballantyne
- "I don't remember," said the culprit, knitting his brows in infantine thought.
- Extract from : « Stories in Light and Shadow » by Bret Harte
- But listen and I'll expound in words suitable to your infantine understanding.
- Extract from : « Commander Lawless V.C. » by Rolf Bennett
- With infantine facility we believed in the words of the matron.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 374, December, 1846 » by Various
- To the apprehension of infantine humanity everything is a god.
- Extract from : « Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol I of 2) » by John Addington Symonds
- Some are scrawling and some are cramped; some are infantine and some foreign.
- Extract from : « Seeing and Hearing » by George W. E. Russell
- The appeal called up for some reason her most infantine manner.
- Extract from : « The Awkward Age » by Henry James
- The infantine struggle with serpents was a favourite subject.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 » by Various
Synonyms for infantine
- adolescent
- baby
- babyish
- callow
- childish
- childlike
- crude
- dawning
- developing
- early
- emergent
- foolish
- frivolous
- green
- growing
- half-grown
- immature
- imperfect
- infantile
- infantine
- initial
- innocent
- jejune
- juvenile
- kid
- kid stuff
- kidstuff
- naive
- nascent
- newborn
- premature
- puerile
- raw
- sophomoric
- tender
- tenderfoot
- underdeveloped
- undergrown
- undeveloped
- unfinished
- unfledged
- unformed
- unripe
- unseasonable
- unseasoned
- unsophisticated
- untimely
- weak
- wet behind ears
- young
- youthful
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