infantilized

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for infantilized
Adjective
  • If nothing else is done with those mice, that association will apparently be forgotten later in life due to infantile amnesia.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2025
  • If this is correct, is there a connection between song and the most basic infantile communication?
    Aaron Shattuck, Scientific American, 18 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The tradeoff is a bit childish, sure, but Harry is also so ubiquitous that just about everyone knows one.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 30 Mar. 2025
  • But the benefits in making the Watch jauntily colorful, for instance, could be outweighed by a result that looks, well, childish.
    David Phelan, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The low-scoring adolescent may not have enjoyed those same advantages and may have experienced stress due to poverty.
    Dalton Conley, TIME, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Disturbing New Details Emerge About the State of the Global Climate Chronic Climate Stressors Hadfield and her team identified three main ways that climate change affected adolescent mental health.
    Stephanie Edwards, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • After Anne’s death, a more paternal side of Cromwell appears—augmented, perhaps, by the loss of his own young daughters to sudden illness, a few years earlier.
    Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2025
  • The selection of Viva and Awuah-Darko for the campaign — lensed by young talent Mauro Maglione and styled by Francesca Cisani — speaks to Whitehouse’s ambition to leverage fashion to raise mental health awareness.
    Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 30 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Adult males, called boars, are emerging from their dens this month, with females and juvenile bears expected to follow in April and early May.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Paulo needed physical therapy to recover from several surgeries to shorten her left leg to the length of her right leg — the difference a consequence of juvenile arthritis.
    Jordan Rau, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • He’s been there; Harper was emotional — at times, immature — as a younger player.
    Matt Gelb, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025
  • From its opening scenes, Severance has presented the procedure the show is named for as a kind of birth, the spawning of a new, immature being.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2025
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“Infantilized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infantilized. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.

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