Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to infants or infancy.
- adjective Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; childish: synonym: young.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In geology, of a land form, having been subjected to the processes of erosion, in its present relation to base-level, for a very short lime.
- Of or belonging to infants or little children; pertaining to or characteristic of infancy or an infant.
- Of the character of an infant; infant-like.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to infancy, or to an infant; similar to, or characteristic of, an infant; childish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to
infants . - adjective
Childish ;immature .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective indicating a lack of maturity
- adjective of or relating to infants or infancy
- adjective being or befitting or characteristic of an infant
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He said, "I state my belief that the precipitating factor in infantile autism is the parents wish that the child should not exist."
An Interview with Barbara D'Amato about Death of a Thousand Cuts 2010
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Anytime they post and insult, and then respond to someone poking fun at them by calling the person infantile, is too good a chance to pass up.
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Saying that it's God's fault he's infantile is just taking a cheap shot because it takes responsibility away from Adam - you ate the apple.
17th C. paper: On Satan fantasyecho 2006
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His methods, roundly disproved today, were based on the belief that 'the precipitating factor in infantile autism is the parent's wish that the child should not exist'.
Death of a Thousand Cuts: Summary and book reviews of Death of a Thousand Cuts by Barbara D'Amato. 2004
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Tolpin 1970 restricted the definition of infantile neurosis to the repressed conflicts of the phallic-oedipal phase, for patients whose early development has been normal.
Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986
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In 1956, Rolf Kostmann, a Swedish pediatrician, described an autosomal recessive disorder that he called infantile genetic agranulocytosis - which is now called severe congenital neutropenia.
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Despite the use of the word infantile, supposedly healthy adults could be stricken with the polio virus.
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The use of the word infantile implied this disease only involved children and it always resulted in paralysis.
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In 1956, Rolf Kostmann, a Swedish pediatrician, described an autosomal recessive disorder that he called infantile genetic agranulocytosis - which is now called severe congenital neutropenia.
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In 1956, Rolf Kostmann, a Swedish pediatrician, described an autosomal recessive disorder that he called infantile genetic agranulocytosis - which is now called severe congenital neutropenia.
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