Childish vs Infantine - What's the difference?
childish | infantine |
Of or suitable for a child.
Behaving immaturely.
Infantile; childish.
*1840 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ‘The Colloquy of Monos and Una’:
*:Man, because he could not but acknowledge the majesty of Nature, fell into childish exultation at his acquired and still-increasing dominion over her elements. Even while he stalked a God in his own fancy, an infantine imbecility came over him.
As adjectives the difference between childish and infantine
is that childish is of or suitable for a child while infantine is infantile; childish.childish
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Your childish temper tantrums are not going to change my decision on this matter.