infantile
IPA: ˈɪnfʌntɪɫ
adjective
- Pertaining to infants.
- Childish; immature.
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Examples of "infantile" in Sentences
- Despite the use of the word infantile, supposedly healthy adults could be stricken with the polio virus.
- The use of the word infantile implied this disease only involved children and it always resulted in paralysis.
- He said, "I state my belief that the precipitating factor in infantile autism is the parents wish that the child should not exist."
- 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.
- 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.
- 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'.
- 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.
- 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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