Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Infant

Nouns
  • infant, babe, baby, babe in arms
  • nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling
  • papoose, bambino
  • kid
  • vagitus. child, bairn [Scot.], little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin
  • bantling, bratling
  • elf. youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet [U.S.], schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master. scion
  • sap, seedling
  • tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow
  • codlin, codling
  • foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten
  • lamb, lambkin
  • aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle. girl
  • lass, lassie
  • wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle
  • maid, maiden
  • virgin
  • hoyden.
Adjectives
  • infantine, infantile
  • puerile
  • boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish
  • baby
  • newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow. in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in leading strings
  • at the breast
  • in one's teens.