infantile

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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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  1. adjective Of or relating to infants or infancy.
  2. adjective Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; childish: infantile behavior; an infantile remark.

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  • His thoughts had been infantile, and controlled apparently by a force that caused the things that he perceived to appear identical to memory images from other ages of his life. —  SUMMER 1952
  • Those films keep animation infantile, an industry convention critics bow before as if —  New York Press
  • One cannot be truly moral until one matures beyond the infantile -- but extremely powerful -- fear of gods. —  Planet Atheism
  • The use of the word infantile implied this disease only involved children and it always resulted in paralysis. —  The Albert Lea Tribune
  • Despite the use of the word infantile, supposedly healthy adults could be stricken with the polio virus. —  The Albert Lea Tribune
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English infantil, from Latin īnfantīlis, from īnfāns, īnfant-, infant; see infant.

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  1. = Spanish Portuguese infantil = Italian infantile, from Latin infantilis, of or belonging to infants, from infan(t-)s, an infant: see infant.
 

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