'Infant' definitions:
Definition of 'infant'
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Definition of 'Infant'
From: GCIDE
- Infant \In"fant\, a.
- 1. Of or pertaining to infancy, or the first period of life; tender; not mature; as, infant strength. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Intended for young children; as, an infant school. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Infant'
From: GCIDE
- Infant \In"fant\, v. t. [Cf. F. enfanter.] To bear or bring forth, as a child; hence, to produce, in general. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- This worthy motto, "No bishop, no king," is . . . infanted out of the same fears. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Infant'
From: GCIDE
- Infant \In"fant\, n. [L. infans; pref. in- not + fari to speak: cf. F. enfant, whence OE. enfaunt. See Fame, and cf. Infante, Infanta.]
- 1. A child in the first period of life, beginning at his birth; a young babe; sometimes, a child several years of age. [1913 Webster]
- And tender cries of infants pierce the ear. --C. Pitt. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Law) A person who is not of full age, or who has not attained the age of legal capacity; a person under the age of twenty-one years; a minor. [1913 Webster]
- Note: An infant under seven years of age is not penally responsible; between seven and fourteen years of age, he may be convicted of a malicious offense if malice be proved. He becomes of age on the day preceding his twenty-first birthday, previous to which time an infant has no capacity to contract. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Same as Infante. [Obs.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'infant'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abecedarian,
- aboriginal,
- adolescent,
- angel,
- antenatal,
- apprentice,
- arrested,
- autochthonous,
- babe,
- babish,
- baby,
- baby bunting,
- babyish,
- bambino,
- bantling,
- bay,
- beginner,
- beginning,
- budding,
- callow,
- catechumen,
- child,
- child of nature,
- classmate,
- creative,
- deb,
- debutant,
- defective,
- deficient,
- doll-like,
- dollish,
- dove,
- dupe,
- elemental,
- elementary,
- embryonic,
- entrant,
- failing,
- fellow student,
- fetal,
- fledgling,
- formative,
- foundational,
- freshman,
- fundamental,
- gestatory,
- grade schooler,
- green,
- greenhorn,
- greeny,
- hick,
- high schooler,
- hopeful,
- hypoplastic,
- immature,
- in arms,
- in arrear,
- in arrears,
- in default,
- in diapers,
- in embryo,
- in its infancy,
- in nappies,
- in short supply,
- in swaddling clothes,
- in the bud,
- in the cradle,
- inadequate,
- inaugural,
- inceptive,
- inchoate,
- inchoative,
- incipient,
- incomplete,
- incubator baby,
- incunabular,
- infantile,
- infantine,
- ingenue,
- initial,
- initiative,
- initiatory,
- innocent,
- intermediate schooler,
- introductory,
- inventive,
- junior,
- juvenal,
- juvenile,
- kindergartner,
- kittenish,
- lacking,
- lamb,
- learner,
- little angel,
- little darling,
- lout,
- mere child,
- mewling infant,
- minor,
- missing,
- nascent,
- natal,
- needing,
- neonatal,
- neonate,
- neophyte,
- nestling,
- newborn,
- newborn babe,
- newcomer,
- noble savage,
- novice,
- novitiate,
- nursery school child,
- nursling,
- oaf,
- original,
- papoose,
- part,
- partial,
- parturient,
- patchy,
- postnatal,
- preemie,
- pregnant,
- premature baby,
- prenatal,
- prep schooler,
- preschool child,
- preschooler,
- primal,
- primary,
- primary schooler,
- prime,
- primeval,
- primitive,
- primogenial,
- probationer,
- procreative,
- pubescent,
- puling infant,
- raw recruit,
- recruit,
- rookie,
- rube,
- rudimental,
- rudimentary,
- sapling,
- scant,
- scanty,
- school child,
- school kid,
- school lad,
- schoolboy,
- schoolfellow,
- schoolgirl,
- schoolmate,
- scrappy,
- secondary schooler,
- short,
- shy,
- simple soul,
- sketchy,
- slip,
- sprig,
- stripling,
- suckling,
- teenager,
- teener,
- teenybopper,
- tenderfoot,
- toddler,
- trainee,
- tyro,
- underdeveloped,
- undeveloped,
- unfledged,
- unripe,
- unsophisticate,
- ur,
- wanting,
- weanling,
- yearling,
- yokel,
- young hopeful,
- young person,
- younger,
- youngest,
- youngling,
- youngster,
- youth,
- youthful
Words containing 'Infant'
- Infante,
- Infantly,
- abandoned infant,
- infant death,
- infant deathrate,
- infant feeding,
- infant mortality,
- infant prodigy,
- infant school,
- liveborn infant,
- newborn infant,
- postmature infant,
- premature infant,
- preterm infant,
- sga infant,
- stillborn infant,
- term infant,
- infant mortality rate,
- infant's-breath,
- maternal-infant bonding,
- sudden infant death syndrome,
- low-birth-weight infant,
- small-for-gestational-age infant