CHILDLIKE


Meaning of CHILDLIKE in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

youthful/childlike excitement

Her voice was full of youthful excitement.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

almost

Corbett had always liked Prince Edward; he had a roguish air, coupled with an almost childlike innocence.

Julio Cesar Chavez has a carefree, almost childlike demeanor.

She speaks with an almost childlike directness that wins over the most sceptical audience.

Jean was a gentle soul, and almost childlike .

I remember the helpless, almost childlike way he submitted himself to my ministrations.

■ NOUN

innocence

Corbett had always liked Prince Edward; he had a roguish air, coupled with an almost childlike innocence .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

She has a childlike way of looking at things.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Although some of the Mites were as old as fifteen, because they were called Mites, their routines were always childlike .

Corbett had always liked Prince Edward; he had a roguish air, coupled with an almost childlike innocence.

His face was childlike and flaccid.

Sometimes she became childlike and you could see her at eight or seventeen or twenty-five.

Suddenly your grown-up veneer gives way to a childlike sensitivity that causes you to feel-within minutes-wonderful happiness and acute distress.

The brothers are very childlike and I think that Lewis Carroll is reliving part of his childhood through this chapter.

The wizards designing Macintosh considered it an open invitation to childlike play, and judged that ability among its chief attributes.

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