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# childlike

«childlike» in Mova's school dictionary: **like a child: trusting, wondering and innocent, in a good…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Childlike means like a child: trusting, wondering and innocent, in a good way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/childlike/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a grown-up with a young, trusting or wondering heart.

### examples

- She had a childlike smile. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/childlike/#x1)
- He felt childlike wonder at the snow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/childlike/#x2)
- Her childlike faith made her happy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/childlike/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «childlike» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/childlike/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.