childish
/ˈt͡ʃaɪldɪʃ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.73 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Your childish temper tantrums are not going to change my decision on this matter."
- "Other instances of primitive thought are the childish belief that science in the future will be able 'objectively' to predict the date of social revolutions in the light of technological development, or the 'scientific law' that people write books, or baseless fantasies on the origin of religion, etc."
- "This game is very childish."
- "She remembered, too, when, after a long childish illness, her father had carried her in his arms to the garden, […]"
- "As I walked to and fro daily between Southwark and Blackfriars, and lounged about at meal-times in obscure streets, the stones of which may, for anything I know, be worn at this moment by my childish feet, I wonder how many of these people were wanting in the crowd that used to come filing before me in review again, to the echo of Captain Hopkins’s voice!"
Etymology
Etymology tree Old English ċild Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Old English ċildisċ Middle English childisch English childish From Middle English childisch, from Old English ċildisċ. By surface analysis, child + -ish.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: childisch, ċildisċ
Inflected Forms
more childish (comparative)
most childish (superlative)