Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Like an infant.
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- adjective Like an
infant .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Thus those non-human animals with neotenized infantlike features may prompt our attention and care because these are features of human juveniles.
INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009
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Thus those non-human animals with neotenized infantlike features may prompt our attention and care because these are features of human juveniles.
INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009
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She stared up at me, her eyes big with interest because of my tone of voice and because of the tiny, infantlike tears that were falling from my all too sad eyes.
Darkest Hour V. C. Andrews 1993
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She stared up at me, her eyes big with interest because of my tone of voice and because of the tiny, infantlike tears that were falling from my all too sad eyes.
Darkest Hour V. C. Andrews 1993
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She stared up at me, her eyes big with interest because of my tone of voice and because of the tiny, infantlike tears that were falling from my all too sad eyes.
Darkest Hour V. C. Andrews 1993
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She stared up at me, her eyes big with interest because of my tone of voice and because of the tiny, infantlike tears that were falling from my all too sad eyes.
Darkest Hour V. C. Andrews 1993
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In a world where conventional reproduction has become obsolete, these infantlike black creatures covered in stars are entrusted to lonely, semi-life-size women crowned by floating halos that evoke
NYT > Home Page By DAVID ROONEY 2010
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The mother of a Seattle-area adult who is "blind, nonverbal, infantlike in her mental ability and utterly dependent on her caregivers" thinks her daughter has been raped three times.
Crosscut 2008
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To her attacker, Jamie must have seemed like the perfect victim: blind, nonverbal, infantlike in her mental ability and utterly dependent on her caregivers.
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Nation Would Rather Think About 9/11 Than Anything From Subsequent 10 Years Your avatar is appropriate given the infantlike simplicity of your post.
digg.com: Top News Digg 2011
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