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{
"word": "unworldly"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:naive",
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},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:naive",
"word": "callow"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:naive",
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:naive",
"word": "verdant"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:naive",
"word": "clueless"
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{
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"word": "cute"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:naive",
"word": "fleeceable"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:naive",
"word": "foppotee"
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"word": "green"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:naive",
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{
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"word": "ingenuous"
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"source": "Thesaurus:naive",
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:naive",
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"word": "Panglossian"
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"word": "quaint"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:naive",
"word": "simple"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:naive",
"word": "simple-hearted"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:naive",
"word": "simple-minded"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:naive",
"word": "starry-eyed"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:naive",
"word": "unaffected"
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"source": "Thesaurus:naive",
"word": "undesigning"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:naive",
"word": "unpretentious"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:naive",
"word": "unsophisticated"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:naive",
"word": "untested"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:naive",
"word": "unworldly"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:naive",
"word": "wide-eyed"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:naive",
"word": "immature"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:naive",
"word": "born yesterday"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:naive",
"word": "wet behind the ears"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:naive",
"word": "virgin"
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"bold_text_offsets": [
[
20,
29
]
],
"ref": "2019 May 8, Jon Bailes, “Save yourself! The video games casting us as helpless children”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 09 Apr 2023:",
"text": "Even Mario is given childlike mannerisms – running open-armed like a fearless toddler, whooping with delight – to convey playful innocence.",
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}
],
"glosses": [
"Of, like, or suitable for a child."
],
"links": [
[
"child",
"child"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "childish"
},
{
"word": "childly"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃaɪldlaɪk/"
},
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:childlike",
"tags": [
"UK",
"dialectal"
],
"word": "bairnlike"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:childlike",
"word": "childlike"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:childlike",
"word": "childly"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:childlike",
"word": "infantile"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:childlike",
"word": "juvenile"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:childlike",
"word": "juvey"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:childlike",
"word": "kiddish"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"lang_code": "sq",
"sense": "innocent and trustful; credulous; artless",
"word": "fëmijëror"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "innocent and trustful; credulous; artless",
"word": "lapsenomainen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "innocent and trustful; credulous; artless",
"word": "kindlich"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "innocent and trustful; credulous; artless",
"word": "gyermeki"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"lang_code": "ang",
"sense": "innocent and trustful; credulous; artless",
"word": "ċildlīċ"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"lang_code": "sh",
"sense": "innocent and trustful; credulous; artless",
"word": "djetinji"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "of, like, or suitable for a child",
"word": "lapsenomainen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "of, like, or suitable for a child",
"word": "kindlich"
},
{
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"lang_code": "got",
"roman": "barnisks",
"sense": "of, like, or suitable for a child",
"word": "𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌽𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"sense": "of, like, or suitable for a child",
"word": "childly"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"lang_code": "ang",
"sense": "of, like, or suitable for a child",
"word": "ċildlīċ"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"lang_code": "sh",
"sense": "of, like, or suitable for a child",
"word": "dječji"
},
{
"code": "dsb",
"lang": "Lower Sorbian",
"lang_code": "dsb",
"sense": "of, like, or suitable for a child",
"word": "źiśecy"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "of, like, or suitable for a child",
"word": "infantil"
}
],
"word": "childlike"
}
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