(a.) Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful.
Example Sentences:
(1) It seemed to me watching the film that the concept of the cloud was another great piece of airy obfuscation on the part of the internet corporations, who like to peddle the childlike and the playful in the way that banks used to flog you credit cards called Smile and Egg and Marbles and Goldfish, to encourage you not to think too hard about the small print (what could possibly go wrong?).
(2) But this was still very much hero worship, northern-style: the 100 or so Werder Bremen fans stood in orderly rows in the Bremen airport arrivals hall in early September, strictly behind the barrier, of course, and many of them carried smiles that were equal parts genuine, childlike excitement and self-deprecating mocking of their own genuine, childlike excitement, a way to cope with the sense of wonderment: are we really here?
(3) And it's important to understand the difference between being childlike and being childish.
(4) A story of childlike simplicity that would pose the big questions.
(5) Josie Long Watching Josie Long evolve from purveyor of childlike whimsy to political agitator has been one of the pleasures of the last few festivals.
(6) In a shocked state, with our understanding of the world badly shaken, a great many of us can become childlike and passive, and overly trusting of people who are only too happy to abuse that trust.
(7) It isn't just her size – she is 4ft 11in, and has the tiniest hands I've seen of anyone over the age of eight – that makes her seem childlike; she also has an openness and cheerful excitability, and not a trace of cynicism.
(8) This is the martyrdom of an entire sex and it is foolish and childlike, made by babes.
(9) Umar, a childlike 30-year-old from Rebo with a maniacal laugh, was diving for tin in exactly the same manner when his four metre-deep underwater ditch collapsed around him, knocking away his mask and air tube.
(10) "He's quite childlike," he says, in awe of the musician he met on the road in Japan in 2002.
(11) It's a quintessentially childlike sensibility, and one we could all use a bit more of.
(12) Dan Kanemitsu, a manga translator, accused de Boer-Buquicchio of “mixing reality with fiction”, adding that there was a difference between abusive images featuring actual children and depictions of childlike characters in manga.
(13) Six psychosocial transactional patterns--negativistic, attention centering, distracting, childlike, attractive, and self-punishing--are identified.
(14) The second definition highlights followers of a certain hipster culture, which revels in a childlike naivety; the films of Wes Anderson , the early books of Dave Eggers , and the twee indie pop of Belle and Sebastian are all mentioned.
(15) It was almost childlike – he was always putting people into different jobs.” For all that he was a remote figure who found it difficult to trust people, Prince provoked a store of good memories in Poole.
(16) Acquiring cross-cultural sensitivity involves regression to childlike openness for new values, attitudes, and behaviors.
(17) Scott was drawn to the early Italians and to the primitive realism of the Cornish painters Christopher Wood and Alfred Wallis – he had a lifelong interest in childlike art, "the beauty of the thing being badly done".
(18) In a prospective study the psychomotor development up to the end of the second year of life of 409 preterm and term newborn infants was examined in order to identify which optimality score might be associated with disturbances of normal childlike development.
(19) Her parents Jenny Slate comes from a family of funny voices: hers is childlike, her mother's is deep, and her father's is high and delicate.
(20) In particular, they do not realise that an artist is childlike, not childish.
Infantile
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to infancy, or to an infant; similar to, or characteristic of, an infant; childish; as, infantile behavior.
Example Sentences:
(1) 310 patients with acute infantile gastroenteritis were divided into 2 groups.
(2) There were pronounced differences from the fine structural aspects in late infantile cases.
(3) Out of 75 vesical bacteriurias 39 infantile and 7 adult (together 61%) specimens contained antibody-coaded bacteria.
(4) However, these proskinetic symptoms appeared to be a character trait of an infantile personality rather than a condition following as a consequence of psychosis.
(5) We show how this model would explain the perinatal or infantile onset of the disease, the variability of the rate of evolution between the different SMA forms, and the fact that motoneuron loss is much more dramatic in SMA than in even advanced cases of myopathy.
(6) This search represents movement beyond the significance of infantile wish-fulfillment aspects of religiosity toward the broader domain of ego functioning and quality of object relations.
(7) The clinical and surgical experience on congenital pulmonary cysts at the Hospital Infantil of México was reviewed.
(8) The curiously double nature of the virgin in this tale, her purity versus her duplicity, seems unquestionably related to the infantile split mother, as elucidated by Klein--a connection explored in an earlier paper.
(9) In 4 patients with neuronal ceroid-lipofuscinoses (NCL) (3 patients with the junvenile type, 1 patient with the late infantile type), the ultrastructural spectrum of residual bodies in the central and peripheral nervous system presented curvilinear profiles in all cases and regions investigated and many more ultrastructural patterns within and beyond regions commonly accessible to biopsy, probably due to age dependence, local tissue and cellular biochemical factors.
(10) As there is usually little or no congenital evidence of the dominant type, "infantile" or "autosomal dominant" hereditary endothelial dystrophy would be more appropriate names for the dominant variant.
(11) The differential diagnosis of infantile wheezing is of particular importance in this very young age group.
(12) In 1943 Konrad Lorenz postulated that certain infantile cues served as releasers for caretaking behaviour in human adults.
(13) Recovery was observed 2 months after treatment of acute infantile paracoccidioidomycosis.
(14) The possible late effects of x-irradiation to the infantile thymus were investigated by studying immune functions in 12 healthy persons with a history of thymic x-irradiation and healthy control subjects.
(15) We, therefore, initiated a study to assess plasma and urinary levels of tetrahydrobiopterin in infantile autism to see if they are reduced.
(16) In infancy, focal-unilateral convulsions and infantile spasms were frequently associated with organic damages.
(17) In 13 cases of infantile spasms whose EEG showed hypasrhythmia, paroxysmal discharges were completely or remarkably suppressed in 4 cases, partially suppressed in 3 cases, but not improved in 6 cases.
(18) Nonesterified dolichols have been measured in the urinary sediment of 20 patients with the late infantile and juvenile forms of neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (Batten disease), in 15 patients with other storage and neurodegenerative disorders and in 10 control subjects.
(19) In contrast, cryptogenic infantile spasms, in which there is no identifiable brain lesion, usually run a favorable course under treatment.
(20) Loperamide is more effective and safer than other opiates or opioid drugs in the treatment of both infantile and adult diarrhoea of various causes, although adequate fluid and electrolyte replacement remain the prime need.