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  • 111puerile — adjective you re too old for these puerile outbursts Syn: childish, immature, infantile, juvenile, babyish; silly, inane, fatuous, jejune, asinine, foolish, petty See note at youthful Ant: mature …

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  • 112childish — adj 1. infantile, childlike, Rare. childly, babyish, infantine, Inf. kiddish; boyish, girlish, youthful, young, juvenile, juvenescent, puerile, adolescent. 2. immature, undeveloped, unfledged, unfeathered, jejune; budding, tender, soft, unripe,… …

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  • 113childlike — adj 1. infantile, babyish; boyish, girlish. See childish (def.1). 2. ingenuous, open, guileless, genuine, artless; sincere, honest, undeceptive, unfeigning, undissembling; natural, unassuming, unpretending; trusting, unsuspicious, unwary,… …

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  • 114infantile — adj 1. babyish, childish, Rare. childly, puerile, infantine, infant; immature, juvenile, adolescent. 2. newborn, newfledged, unfledged, callow, unripe, green, raw, undeveloped, wet behind the ears; in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in diapers …

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  • 115kiddish — adj Informal. youthful, young, young at heart, girlish, boyish, kidlike, childlike, Rare. childly; juvenile, juvenescent, adolescent, puerile, jejune; childish, babyish, infantile, infantine, immature …

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  • 116maudlin — adj 1. sentimental, mawkish, emotional; soupy, romantic, having the soul of a shopgirl, mushy, slushy, Inf. gloppy, cow eyed, calf eyed; teary, lachrymose, weepy, Inf. drippy, soppy; babyish, tender, soft, tender hearted, susceptible, thin… …

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  • 117mawkish — adj 1. sickening, nauseating, nauseous, vomitory; repellent, sour, gone bad, putrid, foul, fetid, smelly; unsavory, tongue puckering; unpleasant, flat, stale, tasteless; insipid, namby pamby, vapid, jejune, Sl. blah. 2. sentimental, Sl. gooey,… …

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  • 118newborn — adj 1. just born, newfledged, neonatal; infantile, infant, babyish, baby; unlicked, still wet behind the ears, unweaned; in the cradle or crib, in swaddling clothes, at the breast, in diapers, Brit. in nappies. 2. reborn, regenerate, regenerated …

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  • 119puerile — adj 1. infantile, infantine, Inf. kiddy, Rare. childly, babyish; boyish, girlish, youthful, young, juvenile, juvenescent; adolescent, pubescent, immature, underaged, minor, undeveloped, unfledged, unfeathered, jejune; budding, tender, soft,… …

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  • 120sentimental — adj 1. emotional, feeling, warm, tender, affectionate, loving, soft hearted, warm hearted, sympathetic, compassionate; impressionable, sensitive, receptive, responsive. 2. maudlin, melodramatic, mawkish, misty eyed, dewy eyed, gushy, Australian.… …

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