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Meanings of childlike in English

Exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity.

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Befitting a young child.

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Usage of childlike in English
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The question Artsutanov asked himself had the childlike brilliance of true genius.
The Fountains of Paradise
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Bush couldn't speak of that; the childlike nature of America prevented him.
The new yorker
3
In fact, the manchild has become even more childlike in recent years.
The Guardian
4
Especially since Thomas Nicasio hardly seemed childlike to her at that moment.
Explosive
5
The smile on the face of the Japanese was childlike and bland.
The Submarine Boys and the Spies / Dodging the Sharks of the Dee...
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She had almost childlike confidence in the tact of her unscrupulous mother.
Elster's Folly: A Novel
7
He felt dimly in his childlike way the loneliness of his mother.
Lloyd George: The Man and His Story
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And with it all they are so childlike and so simple-theseheroes.
With Those Who Wait
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She wanted afterwards, she says, to recreate that childlike intensity of experience.
The Guardian
10
Perfectly composed, yet she still looked round the shop with childlike curiosity.
The Naked God
11
And in her childlike way she asked her husband that very night:-
Together
12
She went to meet the other in an eager, almost childlike way.
The Castle Of The Shadows
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The childlike pathos in this criminal's voice and attitude confused the listener.
A Son of the Hills
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The two girls looked at each other with the same childlike surprise.
A Ward of the Golden Gate
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What I have lost is my old childlike faith in practical politics.
Orthodoxy
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There is a period of development in which grown men are childlike.
Among My Books. First Series
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United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
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