(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.
Juvenile
Definition:
(a.) Young; youthful; as, a juvenile appearance.
(a.) Of or pertaining to youth; as, juvenile sports.
(n.) A young person or youth; -- used sportively or familiarly.
Example Sentences:
(1) We studied the chemotaxis of peripheral blood polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) and monocytes and the production of tumor necrosis factor alpha by monocytes of patients with juvenile periodontitis (JP).
(2) In this study, bacterial flora, especially the occurrence of A. actinomycetemcomitans, in the periodontal pockets of one juvenile with gingivitis (G), one JP patients, five rapidly progressive periodontitis (RP) patients and one adult periodontitis(AP) patient, and one adult with healthy periodontium was investigated using a blood agar medium and a selective medium for A. actinomycetemcomitans.
(3) Juvenile diabetics appear to have fewer cutaneous abnormalities than adults who develop the disease, but the juvenile diabetic is not spared.
(4) The mothers of 87 male and female adolescents accepted at a counseling agency described their offspring by completing the Institute of Juvenile Research Behavior Checklist.
(5) Lymphocyte numbers were depressed below control levels at 24 hr postphlebotomy in exposed juvenile and adult males.
(6) During the first 15 to 20 min of metamorphosis the larval arms are retracted and resorbed into the aboral surface of the juvenile.
(7) Differentiation on histopathological grounds between this tumour and the more common juvenile melanoma may be difficult, but this important distinction should be possible in almost all cases.
(8) Experimentally, the newborn and juvenile matured white A breeded mice of both sexes were used.
(9) A family with occurrence of juvenile sudden death and effort polymorphous ventricular tachycardias is reported.
(10) Minced and triturated fragments from the spinal cord of normal rat fetuses (15-18 days gestation) labeled with the fluorescent dye fast blue (FB) were successfully transplanted into juvenile myelin-deficient rat spinal cord under direct observation.
(11) Changes in haemolymph juvenile hormone (JH) concentrations of larvae of the southwestern corn borer, Diatraea grandiosella, were used to estimate the activity of the corpora allata.
(12) Monaural plugging was performed on different juvenile bats at 7, 14, and 35 days of age.
(13) Compared with juvenile and adult controls, a significantly greater number of "fast isoamylases" was found in the parotid saliva of children with cystic fibrosis and their healthy heterozygous parents.
(14) The purpose of this study was to test an empirically based prediction model of school dropout on a sample of 137 juvenile delinquents, some who have dropped out and some who have remained in school.
(15) Liver enzymes, including aspartate aminotransferase (also called SGOT), alanine aminotransferase (also called SGPT), alkaline phosphatase, and lactate dehydrogenase, may be elevated in juvenile arthritis patients with hepatic dysfunction.
(16) Nine of these 10 patients had juvenile polyposis defined by the presence of at least three juvenile polyps; and eight of the nine had a family history of juvenile polyps.
(17) In 2, the terminal event resembled juvenile chronic myelogenous leukemia, and in the third, the diagnosis was acute monocytic leukemia.
(18) Following the definition and etiology, cases of juvenile bleeding in 66 patients were analysed in connection with the time of its occurrence, its clinical picture and therapy.
(19) This study investigates bacterial invasion of the soft tissue walls of deep pockets from cases with adult (AP) and juvenile periodontitis (JP).
(20) It is planned to employ this method (after further improvements) in investigating the possible effects of changes in the crevicular fluid composition on the developmental and regenerative processes in the juvenile periodontium.