childlike

But then the summit gives way to the other side of the hill, and a childlike glee arises from the whooooosh of the descent.
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Too many people reverted to a childlike state, and they wanted a daddy-protector.
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Their playful exhibitions are often meant to be interactive and instill a childlike sense of joy in the viewer.
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“Her reporting was childlike but graphic,” says the documents.
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Childlike Elvis Presley was amusing but a complete failure in the feathers.
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They would die for a smile from Csar, gazing at him with eyes of childlike adoration.
The Death of the Gods|Dmitri Mrejkowski
We have lost the childlike power of living without conscious aims.
Over Prairie Trails|Frederick Philip Grove
Elsie's childlike eyes had been watching the evening shadow of the cliffs creep along the valley after the retreating sunlight.
Bloom of Cactus|Robert Ames Bennet
A childlike fear had seized her, there, suddenly, between these two silent figures: the living and the dead.
I Will Repay|Baroness Emmuska Orczy
An Indian legend pours cruel scorn upon this childlike megalomania: A fox had fallen into a stream and was drowning.
Morals and the Evolution of Man|Max Simon Nordau

British Dictionary definitions for childlike

childlike

/ (ˈtʃaɪldˌlaɪk) /

adjective

like or befitting a child, as in being innocent, trustful, etcCompare childish (def. 2)

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Word Origin and History for childlike

childlike

adj.

1580s, "proper to a child," from child + like. Meaning "like a child" in a good sense (distinguished from childish) is from 1738.

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