Definitions for infantile

infantile in·fan·tile

Spelling: [in-fuh n-tahyl, -til]
IPA: /ˈɪn fənˌtaɪl, -tɪl/

Infantile is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 275 anagrams from letters in infantile (aefiilnnt).

Definitions for infantile

adjective

  1. characteristic of or befitting an infant; babyish; childish:
  2. of or relating to infants or infancy:
  3. Physical Geography. youthful (def 5).

Origin of infantile

From the Latin word infantīlis, dating back to 1690-1700. See infant, -ile

Examples for infantile

First that infantile, inexcusable business of the shutters, and now this!

It is infantile paralysis, a disease common with delicate children.

It's how we project our own catastrophe of infantile adulthood.

infantile paradoxy is, however, very different to senile paradoxy.

At one point, Valle offered an apology to anybody who had been “hurt, shocked or offended by my infantile actions.”

No bitterness, but a divine, infantile gaiety attended the departure.

But it is quite certain that the infantile death-rate is extremely high.

It was sweet and funny and self-deprecating, nothing like the infantile behavior she had just displayed.

Nothing was important enough to delay attention to an infantile whimper.

It is not infantile paralysis, and he can not yet say what 345 it is.

Word Value for infantile
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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