Junior vs Infantile - What's the difference?
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(not comparable, often, preceded by a possessive adjective or a possessive form of a noun) Younger.
* 1939 , "Uncle Fred in the Springtime":
(not comparable) Of or pertaining to a third academic year in a four-year high school (eleventh grade) or university.
(comparable) Low in rank; having a subordinate role, job, or situation.
Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.
* Sir Thomas Browne
A younger person.
* (Angela Brazil)
A third-year student at a high school or university.
A name suffix used after a son's name when his father has the same name. Abbreviation:
Pertaining to infants.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=9 Childish; immature.
Junior is a related term of infantile.
As a noun junior
is junior (especially a junior sportsman).As an adjective infantile is
pertaining to infants.junior
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Alternative forms
* juniour (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- The last man I met who was at school with me, though some years my junior, had a long white beard and no teeth.
- Our first studies and junior endeavours.
Noun
(en noun)- four years his junior
- Miss Mitchell would certainly be most relieved to have a monitress who was capable of organising the juniors at games.
Antonyms
* seniorExternal links
* ----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.}}