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Antonyms for infantine


Grammar : Adj
Spell : in-fuh n-tahyn, -tin
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɪn fənˌtaɪn, -tɪn



Definition of infantine

  • As in infant/infantile : adj very young
  • As in childish : adj immature, silly
  • As in immature : adj young, inexperienced
Example sentences :
  • Lucy had not liked Ratia so little since the days of her infantine tyranny.
  • Extract from : « Hopes and Fears » by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • Okiok was gazing at him, however, with an air of the most infantine simplicity and deference.
  • Extract from : « Red Rooney » by R.M. Ballantyne
  • We cannot, of course, convey the slightest idea of the infantine Eskimo lisp.
  • Extract from : « Red Rooney » by R.M. Ballantyne
  • "I don't remember," said the culprit, knitting his brows in infantine thought.
  • Extract from : « Stories in Light and Shadow » by Bret Harte
  • But listen and I'll expound in words suitable to your infantine understanding.
  • Extract from : « Commander Lawless V.C. » by Rolf Bennett
  • With infantine facility we believed in the words of the matron.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 374, December, 1846 » by Various
  • To the apprehension of infantine humanity everything is a god.
  • Extract from : « Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol I of 2) » by John Addington Symonds
  • Some are scrawling and some are cramped; some are infantine and some foreign.
  • Extract from : « Seeing and Hearing » by George W. E. Russell
  • The appeal called up for some reason her most infantine manner.
  • Extract from : « The Awkward Age » by Henry James
  • The infantine struggle with serpents was a favourite subject.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 » by Various

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