unˈchildlike, a.
(un-1 7 c.)
| [1775 Ash, Unchildlike.., unlike a child, unbecoming a child.] 1833 J. S. Mill in Monthly Repos. VII. 62 This most grown-up and unchildlike age. 1840 Dickens Barn. Rudge xxv, Something infinitely worse, so ghastly and unchild-like in its cunning. 1879 I. L. Bird Rocky Mts. 53 The family consists of a grown-up son..and three hard, unchildlike younger children. |