Unchildish
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Not childish.
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From un- + childish.
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