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Definition: INFANTINE |
INFANTINEAdjective1. Infantile; childish. |
Date "INFANTINE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Etymology: Infantine \In"fan*tine\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression enfantin.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Imbecility Folly | Childish, child-like; infantine, infantile, babyish, babish; puerile, anile; simple; (credulous); old-womanish. |
Infant | Adjective: infantine, infantile; puerile; boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish; baby; newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Play | Caption |
 | Spit; joke; childish; childlike; foolish; frivolous; infantile; infantine; juvenile; kid stuff; naive; pedomorphic; petty; prekindergarten; puerile; silly; unsophisticated; young; youthful; immature. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "INFANTINE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | foshnjarak (babyish, childly), fëmijëror (childish, childlike, puerile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | инфантилен (infantile), детински (babyish, childish, childlike, infantile, juvenile, puerile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gyermeteg (babyish, childlike, infantile, naïve, naive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | infantineay начальный (early, inceptive, incipient, initial, initiatory, insipient, lead off, primary), младенческий (infantile). (various references) infantilan (infantile), dečji (baby, children's, filial, infant, infantile, juvenile). (various references) infantlig, i vardande (infantile), utan utveckling (infantile), spädbarns- (infant, infantile), barnslig (babyish, childish, childlike, childly, corny, immature, infantile, juvenile, puerile), barna- (infant, infantile), barn- (infant, infantile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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"INFANTINE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: infanti, infanting. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "INFANTINE" (pronounced 'In"fan*tine'): Acolyctine, Aconitine, Adamantine, Agatine, Amanitine, Amethystine, Anatine, Annotine, Asbestine, Balaustine, Barbotine, Barkentine, Bizantine, Bottine, Brilliantine, Ceratine, Cespitine, Chryselephantine, Clandestine, Colbertine, Dentine, Destine, Diamantine, Diophantine, Dracontine, Dragantine, Eglantine, elephantine, Emetine, Ergotine, Extine, galantine, Gigantine, Hellespontine, Heptine, Hornotine, Hydrastine, Intextine, Intine, Isonicotine, Ketine, Lacertine, Laurestine, Legantine, Legatine, Matutine, Maxillo-palatine, Narcotine, Nicotine, Nitratine. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-i-i-n-n-n-t" | |
-2 letters: infante. | |
-3 letters: finite, infant, innate, intine, nannie, tannin. | |
-4 letters: anent, entia, faint, feint, inane, tenia, tinea. | |
-5 letters: ante, anti, etna, fain, fane, fate, feat, feta, fiat, fine, inia, inti, naif, neat, neif, nine, nite, tain, tine. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-i-i-n-n-n-t" | |
+3 letters: antifeminine, infotainment. | |
+4 letters: infotainments. | |
+5 letters: underinflation. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 4E 46 41 4E 54 49 4E 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -. ..-. .- -. - .. -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01001110 01000110 01000001 01001110 01010100 01001001 01001110 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I N F A N T I N E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 004E 0046 0041 004E 0054 0049 004E 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)434840354854434839 |
| 1. Definition 2. Sounds 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Rhymes 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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