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child·like  (chldlk)
adj.
Like or befitting a child, as in innocence, trustfulness, or candor.
childlike [ˈtʃaɪldˌlaɪk]
adj
like or befitting a child, as in being innocent, trustful, etc. Compare childish [2]
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Adj.1.childlike - befitting a young child; "childlike charm"
childly
young, immature - (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth; "young people"
2.childlike - exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity; "childlike trust"; "dewy-eyed innocence"; "listened in round-eyed wonder"
dewy-eyed, round-eyed, wide-eyed, simple
naif, naive - marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience; "a teenager's naive ignorance of life"; "the naive assumption that things can only get better"; "this naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances"
childlike
adjective innocent, trusting, simple, naive, credulous, artless, ingenuous, guileless, unfeigned, trustful She had never lost her childlike sense of wonder.
Translations
childlike [ˈtʃaɪldlaɪk] ADJ → de niño
with a childlike faith → con una confianza ingenua
childlike [ˈtʃaɪldlaɪk] adj
[innocence] → innocent(e), pur(e)
[behaviour, quality] → enfantin(e); [voice] → d'enfant
childlike [ˈtʃaɪldˌlaɪk] adj → ingenuo/a, innocente
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Me, she had dispensed from joining the group; saying, "She regretted to be under the necessity of keeping me at a distance; but that until she heard from Bessie, and could discover by her own observation, that I was endeavouring in good earnest to acquire a more sociable and childlike disposition, a more attractive and sprightly manner-- something lighter, franker, more natural, as it were--she really must exclude me from privileges intended only for contented, happy, little children.
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His lips, that were habitually in a soft and childlike curve, were now writhed into unholy contortions.
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When he smiled, his grave, even rather gloomy, look was instantaneously replaced by another- a childlike, kindly, even rather silly look, which seemed to ask forgiveness.
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