What's the difference between childish and immaturely?

Childish


Definition:

  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child.
  • (a.) Puerile; trifling; weak.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fundamental differences between childish and schizophrenic ways of interpreting the world will be presented, showing the specificity of cognitive representation in schizophrenic thinking.
  • (2) The childish vulnerability she brings out in Sara balances out the visual bleakness of the film.
  • (3) [De Boer-Buquicchio] meant sexualised depictions of childish looking characters in manga and anime.
  • (4) "Hopefully, the lesson is to stop this foolish childishness," McCain said Thursday on CNN.
  • (5) If that sounded childish, Waugh's writing was valued by good judges.
  • (6) Against my will I had to keep watching those two black companions who persistently marked out our movements ahead of us, like walking silhouettes, and it gave me – our feelings are sometimes so childish – a certain reassurance to see that my shadow was longer, slimmer, I almost said "better-looking", than the short, stout shadow of my companion.
  • (7) A letter in which Albert Einstein branded religious beliefs as "childish superstitions" and the "product of human weaknesses" has been sold at auction in London for £170,000 to a private collector, smashing the world record for a letter by the great scientist.
  • (8) It was fairly childish, but it made me laugh.” Attenborough also talks about the dangers of climate change ahead of a new documentary to be shown over the festive period, 60 years after he first scuba dived the Great Barrier Reef in 1957.
  • (9) And it's important to understand the difference between being childlike and being childish.
  • (10) "Or like a small dog barking — it's so childish."
  • (11) (Though my childish understanding, informed by the culture I lived in, led me to believe that "cousin" was the operative problem there.)
  • (12) Mollie Whitworth North Walsham, Norfolk • What an impressive change the House of Lords debate on tax credit regulations made to the usual childish Punch and Judy politics of the other house.
  • (13) Once in charge, they believe they are done with such childish things, and can’t conceive of circumstances in which they will be judged – especially when convinced of their own rectitude.
  • (14) It is a mark of a life unlived, of a childish world view retained.
  • (15) This campaign is nothing but a self-interested and cynical ploy by the newspaper, a childish way of hitting back at the growing chorus of anti-Page 3 voices .
  • (16) What sense would there have been sealing up the Da Vinci, unless you get into childish Dan Brown logic?"
  • (17) The sale will be watched carefully because a letter in which he branded religious beliefs as "childish superstitions" and the "product of human weaknesses" that went on sale in May smashed the record for an Einstein letter by fetching £170,000.
  • (18) This was “childish back and forth”, charged New Jersey governor Chris Christie .
  • (19) It's a rare interlude of childish exuberance for girls whose young lives are dominated by the twice daily walk to the well and home, carrying heavy water cans, and other domestic chores.
  • (20) Those who don't suffer from them find them mystifying; childish, even.

Immaturely


Definition:

  • (adv.) In an immature manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Since 1987, it has become possible to obtain immature ova from the living animal and to let them mature, fertilize and develop into embryos capable of transplantation outside the body.
  • (2) This study was designed to investigate the localization and cyclic regulation of the mRNA for these two IGFBPs in the porcine ovary, RNA was extracted from whole ovaries morphologically classified as immature, preovulatory, and luteal.
  • (3) Using an in vitro culture system, light scatter analyses, and two-color flow cytometry, we provide evidence that the interleukin-2 (IL-2) and transferrin receptors can be induced within 48 hr on nonproliferating immature thymocytes.
  • (4) Adults and immatures of Ixodes pacificus Cooley & Kohls were collected by flagging vegetation and from lizards during a 3-mo period in the Hualapai Mountain Park, Mohave County, AZ, in 1991.
  • (5) Synapse loss was accentuated, however, within immature and mature plaques.
  • (6) Although chronologic age may not be a good predictor of pregnancy outcome, adolescents remain a high-risk group due to factors which are more common among them such as biologic immaturity, inadequate prenatal care, poverty, minority status, and low prepregnancy weight, and because factors associated with an early adolescent pregnancy, such as low gynecologic age, may continue to influence the outcome of subsequent pregnancies.
  • (7) Immature follicles are practically devoid of receptors for this hormone.
  • (8) The high concentrations of gonadotropins present in immature female rats by the end of the second week of life were suppressed by treatment with an antagonist against luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH-A; Org.
  • (9) Gilts that had already reached sexual maturity at the time of insemination showed a higher rate of oestrus and better litter size than immature animals.
  • (10) DR(+) cells, however, showed no change in percentage and a lesser drop in absolute numbers, suggesting an increase with advancing disease of DR(+), Ig(-) null cells, which may represent immature B cell precursors.
  • (11) However, the blasts formed mixed colonies consisting of erythroblasts, granulocytes, macrophages, and immature blasts when cultured in methylcellulose with PHA-leukocyte conditioned medium.
  • (12) I’m probably still far too immature, but maybe as I get older I could consider it.
  • (13) These findings may indicate the loss of the receptor in the course of CML with increasing immaturity of cells released from bone marrow.
  • (14) At the external wall of the host's gut, parasitic cysts of this nematode with immature stages inside were also observed.
  • (15) TdT determination indicate would the presence of immature cells that are not detected in the normal lymphnode; molecular analysis of the rearrangements of these genes would reveal the presence of even a small monoclonal population of both T and B lineages in the lymphnodes.
  • (16) Glucose utilization and lactate production were inadequate with respect to the immature cell population.
  • (17) The variations of the elastic properties and the density around the circumference of both the immature osteopetrotic femur and the unaffected femur were found to be similar to those previously measured on normal adult bovine femora.
  • (18) In the kidney, binding was associated with immature as well as mature glomeruli.
  • (19) A monoclonal antibody specific for columnar epithelium (RGE 53) gave a positive reaction in endocervical columnar cells and in some immature metaplastic cells but was negative in subcolumnar reserve cells, squamous (metaplastic) cells, dysplastic cells, and most cases of carcinoma in situ.
  • (20) The results from gel filtration of glycopeptides indicate that there is a higher content of large molecular weight, sialic acid-rich oligosaccharide units in the glycoprotein of immature myelin.

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