unchildish
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not childish.
Example Sentences
- "But that doesn’t mean it has been easy for her to outgrow her former self. Ms. Rimes recently turned 25, and though she has always had a remarkably unchildish voice (her 1996 breakthrough single was a beautiful, Patsy Cline-ish song called “Blue”), she has spent much of this decade trying to figure out where she fits on the country-pop continuum."
Etymology
From un- + childish.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un
Inflected Forms
more unchildish (comparative)
most unchildish (superlative)