Definition of "childlike" []

• Like or befitting a child, as in innocence, trustfulness, or candor. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Old Ebbits looked at me in childlike wonder, while Zilla sneered openly at the absurdity of my question."
• "All but Violet, who stood amazed, slowly pushing up her Mardi Gras mask to reveal an expression of childlike wonder."
• "The right-hand page shows in childlike handwriting the first lines of his poem “Pastoral”: “The little sparrows/hop ingenuously/about the pavement/quarreling.”"