Definition of Childish

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Definition of Childish
	Childish Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. Puerile; trifling; weak. Related Definitions: Befitting, Child, Of, Or, Pertaining, Puerile, Resembling, To, Trifling, Weak

Childish Quotations

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
Katharine Hepburn

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.
John Steinbeck

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.
Albert Ellis

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
Charles Dickens

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
Clarence Darrow

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
Henri Frederic Amiel

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
Samuel Butler

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
Christopher Marlowe

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
Mikhail Bakunin

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
W. Somerset Maugham

Childish Translations

childish in Dutch is kinderlijk
childish in German is kindisch, kindliche
childish in Hungarian is gyermekies, gyerekes
childish in Italian is fanciullesco
childish in Latin is puerilis
childish in Swedish is barnslig

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