Infantile vs Foolish - What's the difference?
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Pertaining to infants.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=9 Childish; immature.
Lacking good sense or judgement; unwise.
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*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish , but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
Resembling or characteristic of a fool.
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*(Aeschylus)
*:It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish .
Infantile is a related term of foolish.
As adjectives the difference between infantile and foolish
is that infantile is pertaining to infants while foolish is lacking good sense or judgement; unwise.infantile
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Adjective
(en adjective)- infantile paralysis
citation, passage=Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile . It was as if the world had never touched him at all.}}