unchildish

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English

Etymology

un- +‎ childish

Adjective

unchildish (comparative more unchildish, superlative most unchildish)

  1. Not childish.
    • 2007 October 8, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times:
      But that doesn’t mean it has been easy for her to outgrow her former self. Ms. Rimes recently turned 25, and though she has always had a remarkably unchildish voice (her 1996 breakthrough single was a beautiful, Patsy Cline-ish song called “Blue”), she has spent much of this decade trying to figure out where she fits on the country-pop continuum.