CHILDLIKE Antonyms

• marked by practical hardheaded intelligence

• (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception

• bearing in mind; attentive to

• believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others

• having or revealing keen insight and good judgment

• unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic

• quick to understand

• able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive

• freed from illusion

• having knowledge and spiritual insight

• people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity

• characterized by full comprehension of the problem involved

• having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation

• exhibiting insight or clear and deep perception

• exhausted

• dulled by surfeit

• highly educated; having extensive information or understanding

• alert and fully informed

• thoroughly acquainted through study or experience

• characteristic of maturity

• having reached full natural growth or development

• fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used

• (of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination

• fully considered and perfected

• develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation

• develop and work out fully in one's mind

• become due for repayment

• cause to ripen or develop fully

• grow old or older

• cause to ripen and discharge pus

• of or relating to perception

• having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment

• acutely insightful and wise

• skillful in statecraft or management

• concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities

• completely lacking in playfulness

• of great consequence

• causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

• appealing to the mind

• requiring effort or concentration; complex and not easy to answer or solve

• marked by practical hardheaded intelligence

• acting with a specific goal

• having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire

• ahead in development; complex or intricate

• intellectually appealing

• having or prompted by wisdom or discernment

• a way of doing or being

• United States Jewish leader (born in Hungary) (1874-1949)

• United States religious leader (born in Bohemia) who united reform Jewish organizations in the United States (1819-1900)

• marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters

• evidencing the possession of inside information

• improperly forward or bold

• characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world

• very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world