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 parent’s 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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