childlike

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: child=like

CIDE DICTIONARY

childlike, a. 

 Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful.  Hooker.  [1913 Webster]
" Childlike, as applied to persons grown up, is commonly in a good sense; as, childlike grace or simplicity; childlike modesty."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

childlike, adj. having the good qualities of a child as innocence, frankness, etc.

THESAURUS

childlike

angelic, artless, babish, babyish, beardless, blameless, bluff, blunt, born yesterday, boyish, boylike, calflike, candid, childish, clear, coltish, confiding, credulous, decrepit, dependent, depending, direct, doddering, doddery, doited, doting, dovelike, faultless, frank, girlish, girllike, guileless, guiltless, immature, in the clear, incorrupt, infantile, infantine, ingenu, ingenuous, innocent, kiddish, lamblike, maiden, maidenly, naive, not guilty, offenseless, open, openhearted, outspoken, plain, prelapsarian, pristine, puerile, puplike, puppyish, puppylike, reliant, relying, reproachless, sans reproche, senile, simple, simplehearted, simpleminded, sincere, single-hearted, single-minded, sinless, trustful, trusting, trusty, unassuming, uncorrupted, undefiled, undissembling, unfallen, unguarded, unlapsed, unreserved, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, untouched by evil, unwary, with clean hands, without reproach, without suspicion, young, youthful