Synonyms of the word

childlike

• adj. innocent and trustful; credulous; artless.
• adj. of, like, or suitable for a child.

childly

• adj. Of or pertaining to a young child; childlike.

dewy-eyed

• adj. Having eyes with a moist, glistening appearance, especially as indicating that one is on the verge of…
• adj. (figuratively) Naive or innocent in the manner of a child.
• adj. Excessively nostalgic.

immature

• adj. Not fully formed or developed, unripe, not mature.
• adj. Childish in behavior, not mature.
• n. An immature member of a species.

naif

• adj. Naive.
• n. One who is naive.

naive

• adj. Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated; against better judgement.
• adj. (of art) Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.
• adj. (computing) Intuitive; designed to follow the way ordinary people approach a problem.

simple

• adj. Uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added.
• adj. Without ornamentation; plain.
• adj. Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
• adj. Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
• adj. (now rare) Trivial; insignificant.
• adj. (now colloquial) Feeble-minded; foolish.
• adj. (heading, technical) Structurally uncomplicated.
• adj. (obsolete) Mere; not other than; being only.
• n. (medicine) A preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
• n. (obsolete) A term for a physician, derived from the medicinal term above.
• n. (logic) A simple or atomic proposition.
• n. (obsolete) Something not mixed or compounded.
• n. (weaving) A drawloom.
• n. (weaving) Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
• n. (Roman Catholicism) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To gather simples, i.e., medicinal herbs.

wide-eyed

• adj. Having large or wide-open eyes.
• adj. (by extension) Astonished or surprised.

young

• adj. In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.
• adj. At an early stage of existence or development; having recently come into existence.
• adj. (Not) advanced in age; (far towards or) at a specified stage of existence or age.
• adj. Junior (of two related people with the same name).
• adj. (of a decade of life) Early.
• adj. Youthful; having the look or qualities of a young person.
• adj. Of or belonging to the early part of life.
• adj. (obsolete) Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.
• n. People who are young; young people, collectively; youth.
• n. Young or immature offspring (especially of an animal).
• n. (rare, possibly nonstandard) An individual offspring; a single recently born or hatched organism.
• v. (informal or demography) To become or seem to become younger.
• v. (informal or demography) To cause to appear younger.
• v. (geology) To exhibit younging.