unchildish
English
Etymology
un- + childish
Adjective
unchildish (comparative more unchildish, superlative most unchildish)
- Not childish.
- 2007 October 8, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times:
- 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.
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