Infantile means immature or childish. Thumb sucking and temper tantrums are examples of infantile behavior.
Of or pertaining to infancy, or to an infant; similar to, or characteristic of, an infant; childish;
Adjective S.
indicating a lack of maturity; "childish tantrums"; "infantile behavior"
Adjective S.
being or befitting or characteristic of an infant; "infantile games"
Adjective
of or relating to infants or infancy; "infantile paralysis"
a.
Of or pertaining to infancy, or to an infant; similar
to, or characteristic of, an infant; childish; as, infantile behavior.
Infantile
Of or pertaining to infancy, or to an infant; similar to, or characteristic of, an infant; childish;
Usage Examples
Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly.
We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.
I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.
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Other Usage ExamplesAcademics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
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