2022-01-16
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน - Set – C - childish & childlike
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Dictionary.com
ออกเสียง childish = “CHAHYL-dish”
ออกเสียง childlike = “CHAHYLD-lahyk”
The A-Z of Correct English Common Errors in English Dictionary:
childish or childlike?
The teenager was rebuked by the magistrate
for his CHILDISH behaviour. (i.e. which he should haveoutgrown)
The grandfather has retained his sense of CHILDLIKE wonder
at the beauty of the natural world.
(i.e. marvelously direct, innocent and enthusiastic)
Dictionary of Problem Words and Expressions:
childish & childlike
The suffix -ishoften has unfavorable connotations.
Childish refers to undesirable characteristics
(childish temper, childish selfishness).
The suffix -like frequently causes neutral or pleasing reactions
(childlike innocence, childlike faith).
Childish andinfantile are only approximate synonyms;
Their antonyms are adult and mature.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Word History
'Childlike' vs. 'Childish'
The words have very different connotations.
Childish and childlike initially meant nearly the same thing:
“resembling or suggesting a child.”
Childish is the older term, dating to Old English
from before the 12th century.
To the original neutral meaning (“of a child or typical of a child”),
a second one with negative connotations began to be used in the 1400s,
referring to the qualities of a child in a person who is no longer a child
—and therefore should know better:
“having or showing the unpleasant qualities
(such as silliness or lack of maturity) that children often have.”
Childlike entered the language much later, in the mid-1500s.
It, by contrast, usually connotes some positive quality
such as innocence, trustfulness, or ingenuousness:
childlike is also used for the perfectly neutral meaning:
But the lines of meaning still cross between these two words:
sometimes childish is clearly used in a neutral or positive way.
We make a similar distinction with
the much less frequently used words babyish and babylike:
There are two rarely used, collector’s item words
that are synonyms of these words:
babish (for babyish) and childly (for childish).
Child may come from Old English stock,
but, like many English terms, there is also a Latinate equivalent:
puerile which means “silly or childish
especially in a way that shows a lack of seriousness or good judgment,” and comes from the Latin word puer meaning“boy” or “child.”
Another near-synonym with Latin roots isjuvenile
meaning “unpleasantly childish.”
These very subtle differences of meaning among words
that are otherwise similar can give us the power
to be extremely specific when telling someone not to be a child.
