Usually means: Immature behavior typical of children.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word childish:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. childish: Merriam-Webster
  2. childish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. childish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. childish: Collins English Dictionary
  5. childish: Vocabulary.com
  6. Childish, childish: Wordnik
  7. childish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. childish: Wiktionary
  9. childish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. childish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. childish: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Childish, childish: Dictionary.com
  13. childish: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Childish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. childish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. childish: Rhymezone
  17. Childish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. childish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. childish: FreeDictionary.org
  20. childish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. childish: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. childish: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. childish: Legal dictionary
  2. childish: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. childish: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. childish: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. childish: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See childishly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Immature in thought or behaviour.
adjective:  belonging to or suitable for a child.

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