Infantile

Definitions: Infantile

Infantile

Adjective

1. Indicating a lack of maturity; "childish tantrums"; "infantile behavior".

2. Of or relating to infants or infancy; "infantile paralysis".

3. Being or befitting or characteristic of an infant; "baby rabbits".

Date "infantile" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1818. (references)

Etymology: Infantile \In"fan*tile\, adjective. [Latin expression infantilis: compare to the French expression infantile. See Infant.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Health	Pertaining to an infant or to infancy. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Infantile

Synonyms: baby(a) (adj), childish (adj), infant(a) (adj). (additional references)

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.

Crosswords: Infantile

English words defined with "infantile": chicken-breasted ♦ genital personality ♦ infantile amaurotic idiocy, infantile autism, infantile fixation, infantile paralysis, Infantile rose, infantilism, Infantine ♦ pigeon-breasted ♦ regression. (references)

Specialty definitions using "infantile": Acrodermatitis ♦ Cri-du-Chat Syndrome ♦ Dermatitis, Atopic, Diiodothyronines ♦ infantile beri-beri, infantile nephrosis, infantile nephrotic syndrome ♦ Leishmaniasis, Visceral, Lipodystrophy ♦ Rotavirus Infections ♦ Shigella flexneri ♦ Triiodothyronine, Reverse ♦ Wolman Disease. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Infantile" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (childish, infantile), Italian (babyish, childish, childlike, infant, infantile, puerile).

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

Control is an illusion, you infantile egomaniac. (Days of Thunder; writing credit: Robert Towne; Tom Cruise)

Only a drunken, infantile idiot shoots himself over love, not an internist. (A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy; writing credit: Woody Allen)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
References	The Official Parent's Sourcebook on Infantile Apnea (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	An Infantile Disorder?: The Crisis and Decline of the New Left (reference) Dramatizanones Infantile Para Dias Especiales (reference) Early Childhood Disturbances, the Infantile Neurosis and the Adult Disturbances (Psychoanalytic Study of the Child Monographs: No. 2) (reference) Infantile Sexuality and Development (reference) Infantile Tuina Therapy: Traditional Chinese Therapeutic Exercises and Techniques (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Infantile Spiele [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Transmission electron micrograph of rotavirus with single-shelled capsid. Cause of infantile gastroenteritis. Negative stain.Credit: CDC.		Thia patient with congenital syphilis is exhibiting rhagades, which are cracks or fissures in the skin around the mouth. Such a rare type of facial disfigurement, results from persistent infantile syphilitic rhinitis.Credit: CDC.
	The National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis.Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Urlaubs-bekanntschaft. In Österreich gibt es so lange keine Kinderlähmung,.... : [Vacation acquaintance. In Austria there has been no infantile paralysis for a long time,...].Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Von Kindesbeinen an: Zur Schluckimpfung gegen die Kinderlähmung. : [From toddlerhood on, oral vaccination against infantile paralysis].Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Infantile Paralysis : This Notice is Posted in Compliance with Law.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	[National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis grant].Credit: National Library of Medicine.		La visiteuse d'hygiéne vous montrera le chemin de la santé. Elle mène une croisade contre la tuberculose et la mortalité infantile. Soutenez-la!.Credit: Library of Congress.
	La visiteuse d'hygiéne vous montrera le chemin de la santé. Elle mène une croisade contre la tuberculose et la mortalité infantile. Soutenez-la!.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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.

Title	Author	Quote
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	Pearl was a born outcast of the infantile world.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Haines, S, and Casto, D.Treatment of Infantile Spasms. (references)
		Kolodgie, M.Home Care Management of the Child With Infantile Spasms. (references)
		In the infantile form death may occur between 3 and 6 years after onset. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Infantile" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.06% of the time. "Infantile" is used about 136 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	97.06%	132	27,743
Noun (proper)	2.94%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	136	N/A

Expressions using "infantile": infantile amaurotic idiocy ♦ infantile autism ♦ infantile fixation ♦ infantile nephrosis ♦ infantile nephrotic syndrome ♦ infantile paralysis ♦ infantile pellagra ♦ Infantile rose ♦ Infantile tuina therapy. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "infantile": infantile-like.
	Ending with "infantile": pseudo-infantile.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "infantile"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		foshnjor (infant, puerile), fillestar (apprentice, beginner, catechumen, departure, elementary, freshman, incipient, initial, learner, neophyte, novice, preliminary, prime, primitive, primordial, radical, recruit, rookie, tiro, youngling), fëminor (childish). (various references)

Arabic		‏ناشئ في مراحله الأولى, ‏طفلي (babyish), ‏طفولي (childish, kiddy, paederasty, pederasty), ‏صبياني (babyish, boyish, childish, juvenile, puerile). (various references)

Bulgarian		в най-ранен стадий, начеващ (inceptive, incipient, tyro), начален (auroral, elemental, embryo, inceptive, incipient, initial, initiative, initiatory, introductory, opening, original), инфантилен (infantine), детски (childish, childlike, infant, toy), детински (babyish, childish, childlike, infantine, juvenile, puerile). (various references)

Chinese		稚 (grass, tares, young), 婴儿 (infant). (various references)

Czech		infantilní (juvenile), dìtský (childish, childlike, puerile), dìtinský (babyish, childish, immature, jejune, puerile). (various references)

Danish		infantil. (various references)

Dutch		infantiel. (various references)

Farsi		مربوطبدوران کودکی , ابتداءی (Elementary, Initial, Preliminary, Primary, Primer, Rudiment, Rudimentary), بچگی (Boyhood, Childhood, Puerility), بچگانه (Childlike, Chilish, Little, Puerile). (various references)

Finnish		infantiilinen, infantiili, imeväis-, lapsimainen, lapsenomainen, lapsellinen (childish, childlike, naïf, naïve, naive, puerile), kehittymätön (undeveloped). (various references)

French		infantile. (various references)

German		infantil (puerile), kindisch (babyish, childish, juvenile, puerile). (various references)

Greek		βρεφικός, νηπιώδησ (babyish), νηπιώδης, νηπιακόσ, νεογνικός (neonatal), παιδικόσ (boyish, childish, juvenile, puerile), παιδικός. (various references)

Hebrew		יל�"ותי (childish, juvenile), תי� וקי (babyish, childish). (various references)

Hungarian		gyermekes (childish, childlike, peevish, puerile). (various references)

Indonesian		bersifat kekanak-kanakan. (various references)

Italian		infantile (babyish, childish, childlike, infant, puerile). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		幼稚 (childish, infancy). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ようち (beautiful pond, childish, important place, infancy, night attack, place where immortals live, site, strategic location). (various references)

Korean		� 아 (Bairn, infant, toddler). (various references)

Manx		oikanagh (babyish, babylike), lhiannooagh (babyish, babylike, boyish, puerile), lambaanagh (childish, childlike, doting, pusillanimous). (various references)

Norwegian		infantil, barnslig. (various references)

Pig Latin		infantileay

Portuguese		infantil (babyish, boyish, childish, childlike, infant, infantilism, little bar, outage, puerile). (various references)

Romanian		infantil (infant), incipient (inchoate, inchoative, incipient), referitor la copii, copilãresc (bread and butter, childish, childlike, children's, child's, jejune). (various references)

Russian		младенческий (infantine), инфантильный, детский (baby, babyish, childish, childlike, childly, infant). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		infantilan (infantine), dečji (baby, children's, filial, infant, infantine, juvenile). (various references)

Spanish		infantil (baby, babyish, boyish, childhood, childish, childlike, children's, filially, infant, juvenile). (various references)

Swedish		barn- (infant, infantine). (various references)

Thai		เหมือนทารก. (various references)

Turkish		bebeksi (baby, babyish), bebeklikle ilgili, bebek (babe, baby, Bebek, cookie, cooky, doll, Dolly, infant, puppet), başlangıç aşamasında olan, çocukça (babyish, boyish, childish, puerile), çocuk (baby, bairn, brat, child, chit, infant, junior, juvenile, kid, mite, moppet, nipper, paed-, seed, son, youngster). (various references)

Ukranian		інфантильний, дитячий (baby, babyish, bairnish, childish, infant, puerile). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Infantile" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: infanti. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "infantile" (pronounced i"nfuntul)
4	-n t u l	accidental, Cantle, coincidental, compartmental, consonantal, continental, dental, detrimental, developmental, disgruntle, dismantle, elemental, environmental, experimental, frontal, fundamental, gentle, governmental, horizontal, incidental, incremental, instrumental, intercontinental, intergovernmental, judgmental, lentil, lintel, mantel, mantle, mental, monumental, nongovernmental, occidental, oriental, ornamental, parental, periodontal, prefrontal, quintal, regimental, rental, sentimental, supplemental, temperamental, transcendental, transcontinental, unsentimental, Wintle.
3	-t u l	acquittal, anecdotal, artiodactyl, battle, beetle, belittle, betel, bicoastal, bottle, brattle, Bristol, brittle, brutal, butyl, capital, Capitol, cattle, chattel, chortle, coastal, committal, congenital, crustal, crystal, digital, distal, ductile, embattle, entitle, extramarital, fatal, fertile, fetal, fractal, futile, genital, glottal, hospital, hostel, hostile, hurtle, immortal, immotile, infertile, kettle, Kittel, Kittle, little, marital, metal, mettle, mortal, motile, Myrtle, Natal, neonatal, nettle, noncommittal, nonfatal, nonvolatile, occipital, orbital, parietal, pedestal, petal, Pistil, pistol, pivotal, portal, postal, postnatal, Pottle, prattle, premarital, prenatal, projectile, rattle, rebuttal, recital, rectal, resettle, scuttle, settle, shuttle, skeletal, skittle, societal, spittle, startle, subtitle, subtle, tactile, tattle, throttle, title, tittle, tootle, total, transmittal, turtle, unsettle, unsubtle, varietal, vegetal, versatile, vestal, vital, vittle, volatile, Whittle.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-f-i-i-l-n-n-t"
	-1 letter: antilife.
	-2 letters: aniline, filiate, infante, inflate.
	-3 letters: anilin, entail, fetial, finale, finial, finite, infant, innate, intine, linnet, tenail, tineal.
	-4 letters: alien, aline, anent, anile, elain, elfin, elint, entia, faint, feint, fetal, filet, final, flint, flite, inane, inlet, laten, leant, liane, linen, linin, litai, telia, tenia, tinea.
	-5 letters: alef, alif, alit, anil, ante, anti, elan, etna.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-f-i-i-l-n-n-t"
	+2 letters: franklinite, infantilize, inferential, influential, reinflating, reinflation.
	+3 letters: confidential, definitional, franklinites, infantilized, infantilizes, inflectional, influentials, reinflations.
	+4 letters: infantilities, inferentially, infinitesimal, influentially, magnificently, nonaffiliated, overinflating, overinflation, ultrafeminine.
	+5 letters: antireflection, confidentially, hyperinflation, indefinability, infinitesimals, inflectionally, interferential, overinflations, semifunctional, underinflation, unidentifiable, unquantifiable.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 6E 66 61 6E 74 69 6C 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.. -. ..-. .- -. - .. .-.. .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01101110 01100110 01100001 01101110 01110100 01101001 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#110 &#102 &#97 &#110 &#116 &#105 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 006E 0066 0061 006E 0074 0069 006C 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
spasms infantile	66	infantile maternelle protection	3
infantile	28	infantile colic	3
infantile cerebral paralysis	20	infantile reflex	3
infantile eczema	12	infantile masturbation	3
amnesia infantile	11	et infantile maternelle protection	3
infantile spasm	11	fibrosarcoma infantile	2
infantile seizure	9	infantile botulism	2
infantile autism	8	diabetes infantile symptom	2
infantile scoliosis	6	diabetes infantile	2
infantile paralysis	6	infantile spasms syndrome west	2
acne infantile	4	fibromatosis infantile	2
infantile maladie	4	infantile psychologie	2
infantile polycystic kidney disease	4	infantile psicologia	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Infantile

Definitions: Infantile

Infantile

Adjective

Specialty Definitions: Infantile

Synonyms: Infantile

Synonyms within Context: Infantile

Imbecility Folly

Infant

Crosswords: Infantile

Modern Usage: Infantile

Screenplays

Commercial Usage: Infantile

References

Books

Music

Image Slideshow: Infantile

Computer Images:Infantile

Photo Album: Infantile

Sounds Captioned with "Infantile".

Use in Literature: Infantile

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Non-Fiction Usage: Infantile

Usage Frequency: Infantile

Expression: Infantile

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Infantile

Modern Translations: Infantile

Albanian

Arabic

Bulgarian

Chinese

Czech

Danish

Dutch

Farsi

Finnish

French

German

Greek

Hebrew

Hungarian

Indonesian

Italian

Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

Korean

Manx

Norwegian

Pig Latin

Portuguese

Romanian

Russian

Serbo-Croatian

Spanish

Swedish

Thai

Turkish

Ukranian

Misspellings: Infantile

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Infantile"

Anagrams: Infantile

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Infantile

49 6E 66 61 6E 74 69 6C 65

.. -. ..-. .- -. - .. .-.. .

01001001 01101110 01100110 01100001 01101110 01110100 01101001 01101100 01100101

&#73 &#110 &#102 &#97 &#110 &#116 &#105 &#108 &#101

0049 006E 0066 0061 006E 0074 0069 006C 0065

438072678086757871

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Computer Images:
Infantile