From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Childlike \Child"like'\ (ch[imac]ld"l[imac]k'), adjective Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful. ''Childlike obedience.'' --Hooker.
Note: Childlike, as applied to persons grown up, is commonly in a good sense; as, childlike grace or simplicity; childlike modesty.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: befitting a young child; "childlike charm" [syn: {childly}]
2: exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity; "childlike trust"; "dewy-eyed innocence"; "simple courtesy" [syn: {wide-eyed}, {dewy-eyed}, {simple}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
91 Moby Thesaurus words for "childlike": angelic, artless, babish, babyish, beardless, blameless, bluff, blunt, born yesterday, boyish, boylike, calflike, candid, childish, clear, coltish, confiding, credulous, decrepit, dependent, depending, direct, doddering, doddery, doited, doting, dovelike, faultless, frank, girlish, girllike, guileless, guiltless, immature, in the clear, incorrupt, infantile, infantine, ingenu, ingenuous, innocent, kiddish, lamblike, maiden, maidenly, naive, not guilty, offenseless, open, openhearted, outspoken, plain, prelapsarian, pristine, puerile, puplike, puppyish, puppylike, reliant, relying, reproachless, sans reproche, senile, simple, simplehearted, simpleminded, sincere, single-hearted, single-minded, sinless, trustful, trusting, trusty, unassuming, uncorrupted, undefiled, undissembling, unfallen, unguarded, unlapsed, unreserved, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, untouched by evil, unwary, with clean hands, without reproach, without suspicion, young, youthful
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