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Infantile vs Foolish - What's the difference?

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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

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to infants.
  • infantile paralysis
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=9 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.}}
  • Childish; immature.
  • Synonyms

    * (childish) puerile

    Derived terms

    * infantilely * infantilize

    foolish

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Lacking good sense or judgement; unwise.
  • :
  • *
  • *: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.
  • :
  • *(Aeschylus)
  • *:It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish .
  • Synonyms

    * absurd * idiotic * ridiculous * silly * unwise

    Antonyms

    * wise

    Derived terms

    * foolishness