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Childly

Having the character of a child; belonging, or appropriate, to a child.

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Immature 84% connected

Not mature; unripe; not arrived at perfection of full development; crude; unfinished; as, immature fruit; immature character; immature plans.

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Immature 84% connected

Not mature; unripe; not arrived at perfection of full development; crude; unfinished; as, immature fruit; immature character; immature plans.

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Young 84% connected

Not long born; still in the first part of life; not yet arrived at adolescence, maturity, or age; not old; juvenile; -- said of animals; as, a young…

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Young 84% connected

Not long born; still in the first part of life; not yet arrived at adolescence, maturity, or age; not old; juvenile; -- said of animals; as, a young…

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Child 74% connected

A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; -- in law, legitimate offspring. Used…

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Child 74% connected

A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; -- in law, legitimate offspring. Used…

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Childlike 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Adopt verb · 78% connection

To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be…

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Adoption noun · 78% connection

a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all pri…

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Affiliate verb · 78% connection

To fix the paternity of; -- said of an illegitimate child; as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another.

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Amphidromical adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to an Attic festival at the naming of a child; -- so called because the friends of the parents carried the child around the…

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Assimilate verb · 78% connection

To appropriate and transform or incorporate into the substance of the assimilating body; to absorb or appropriate, as nourishment; as,…

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Attribute verb · 78% connection

To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider a…

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Auf noun · 78% connection

A changeling or elf child, -- that is, one left by fairies; a deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an oaf.

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Bastard noun · 78% connection

A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.

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Character noun · 78% connection

Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty; as, in the miserable character of a…

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Conjugal adjective · 78% connection

Belonging to marriage; suitable or appropriate to the marriage state or to married persons; matrimonial; connubial.

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Diabolical adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to the devil; resembling, or appropriate, or appropriate to, the devil; devilish; infernal; impious; atrocious; nefarious;…

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Diabolism noun · 78% connection

Character, action, or principles appropriate to the devil.

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Disown verb · 78% connection

To refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one's self; to disavow or deny, as connected with one's self personally; as, a parent…

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Educate verb · 78% connection

To bring /// or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly…

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Examine verb · 78% connection

To test by any appropriate method; to inspect carefully with a view to discover the real character or state of; to subject to inquiry…

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Foreign adjective · 78% connection

Remote; distant; strange; not belonging; not connected; not pertaining or pertient; not appropriate; not harmonious; not agreeable; no…

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Foster verb · 78% connection

Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc.,…

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Grandchild noun · 78% connection

A son's or daughter's child; a child in the second degree of descent.

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