childlike

Adjective Satellite

• befitting a young child
  • "childlike charm"
• exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity
  • "childlike trust"

Adj

• Innocent and trustful; credulous; artless.
• Of, like, or suitable for a child.

Synonyms

childly, dewy-eyed, round-eyed, simple, wide-eyed, Panglossian, Panglossic, artless, bairnlike, born yesterday, callow, childish, childlike, clueless, credulous, cute, fleeceable, green, guileless, immature, ingenuous, innocent, jejune, juvenile, juvey, kiddish, quaint, simple-hearted, simple-minded, starry-eyed, unaffected, undesigning, unpretentious, unsophisticated, untested, unworldly, virgin, wet behind the ears

Antonyms

adultlike, grown up, nonchildlike, unchildlike

Related Words

childish, naive, young