Definition of Childlike

Childlike

Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful.

Related Definitions:

Becoming, Child, Children, Dutiful, Meek, Or, Resembling, Submissive, That, To, Which

Childlike Quotations

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
Honore de Balzac

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
John Updike

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
Maya Lin

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

You can be childlike without being childish.
Christopher Meloni

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, "Am I having fun?"
Christopher Meloni

I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
Beck

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
Carroll O'Connor

The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.
Kenneth Branagh

I quite like childlike songs, which sometimes cross over.
Alan Price

One of the characteristics I cherish in my friends is their childlike gullibility, and several excited minutes were spent trying to actually find this book.
Phil Foglio

It's fun playing two roles. The roles provide a wonderful range of emotions. Stuart is childlike and sensitive. Adam is ruthless, outrageous. He's flamboyant. He does the unexpected.
David Canary

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.
Charles Fillmore

He's not a child but he's childlike, he's not a grown up, he's not a kid, maybe he sounds like an elf on helium, we'll play with it.
Tom Kenny

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Childlike Translations

childlike in French is enfantin
childlike in German is kindlich
childlike in Spanish is infantil
childlike in Swedish is som ett barn

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