How do you use Infantile in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like immature or childish, plus the exact meaning.
Infantile in a sentence
Infantile meaning
- Pertaining to infants.
- Childish; immature.
Using Infantile
- The main meaning on this page is: Pertaining to infants. | Childish; immature.
- Useful related words include: immature, childish, time of life, young.
- In the example corpus, infantile often appears in combinations such as: an infantile, and infantile, of infantile.
Context around Infantile
- Average sentence length in these examples: 18.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Infantile
- In this selection, "infantile" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 18.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, treats, though, experienced, spasms, infatuation and stage stand out and add context to how "infantile" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include also treats infantile spasms in and drinking and infantile dick doodles. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "infantile" sits close to words such as aachen, abayomi and abbots, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with infantile
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The slogan is infantile. (4 words)
Lions fans are infantile. (4 words)
What a load of fabricated infantile bs. (7 words)
One of Uncle Mike’s attributes was resilience, which probably began with his recovery from infantile paralysis (Polio) at the age of 9, which required much patience and exercise for him and his parents. (34 words)
Tracking the weapon fusion mechanic from this infantile stage into what it has become in Tears of the Kingdom provides insight into how interesting new ideas evolve into groundbreaking gameplay mechanics. (31 words)
His predilection for insulting elders is legendary and he definitely crossed the line with his infantile ‘death wish’ advert during the 2015 campaigns which even the PDP denounced. (28 words)
Example sentences (20)
It also treats infantile spasms in babies and children between the ages of 1 month and 2 years.
The chemistry between the two then feels less like true love than infantile infatuation.
The slogan is infantile.
Tracking the weapon fusion mechanic from this infantile stage into what it has become in Tears of the Kingdom provides insight into how interesting new ideas evolve into groundbreaking gameplay mechanics.
What we are really witnessing is an infantile spasm in defence of a failing status quo.
One of Uncle Mike’s attributes was resilience, which probably began with his recovery from infantile paralysis (Polio) at the age of 9, which required much patience and exercise for him and his parents.
The message: look at these silly people; imagine putting your infantile hopes and dreams on a baseball hat.
Further, her decision to recount Regions One, Two, Three and Four simultaneously is infantile.
The Baby Nut Planters spokes-legume introduced in February has reemerged, morphing from his infantile character into a 21-year-old.
There’s a genius that threads itself through this tale of underage drinking and infantile dick doodles, which raises it from the puerile to the profound.
The Western debate about Islam is often ill-informed, even infantile.
Though infantile amnesia is likely the cost of crucial cognitive developmental processes, it is also a constraint on learning during early life, according to Ryan.
We cannot be so simplistic or infantile to argue that our principles should be evaluated singularly in dollars and cents.
I replied, thinking of that infantile, but popular, one-liner some men make about childbirth being like watching their favourite pub burn down.
Lions fans are infantile.
Max, 18, suffers 120 seizures a day and is “trapped at age six”, having first experienced infantile spasms at just four months old.
What a load of fabricated infantile bs.
His predilection for insulting elders is legendary and he definitely crossed the line with his infantile ‘death wish’ advert during the 2015 campaigns which even the PDP denounced.
I cannot condescend to such a low, petty, puerile and infantile level of juvenile vituperation for any conceivable reason.
If AR is in its youthful stages now, back then it was positively infantile.
Common combinations with infantile
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an infantile 5×
- and infantile 4×
- of infantile 4×
- his infantile 3×
- infantile tay 3×
- infantile spasms 2×
- is infantile 2×
- this infantile 2×
- infantile paralysis 2×
- for infantile 2×