INFANT: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for INFANT?

Need another word that means the same as “infant”? Find 13 synonyms and 30 related words for “infant” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Infant” are: babe, baby, newborn, young child, little child, little one, developing, emergent, dawning, fledgling, budding, growing, up-and-coming

Infant as a Noun

Definitions of "Infant" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “infant” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• A person who has not attained legal majority.
• A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
• A schoolchild between the ages of about four and eight.
• A very young child or baby.
• Denoting something in an early stage of its development.

Synonyms of "Infant" as a noun (13 Words)

babe	An innocent or helpless person. He s been pumping up his pecs to impress the babes.
baby	One’s particular responsibility or concern. Baby rabbits.
budding	Reproduction of some unicellular organisms (such as yeasts) by growth and specialization followed by the separation by constriction of a part of the parent.
dawning	The earliest period. The dawnings of civilization.
developing	Processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible.
emergent	An emergent tree or other plant. Emergents tower above the top canopy.
fledgling	Any new participant in some activity. The country s fledgling democracy.
growing	The process of an individual organism growing organically a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level.
little child	A small amount or duration.
little one	A small amount or duration.
newborn	A recently born child or animal. She s incapable of looking after a newborn.
up-and-coming	Arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous.
young child	Young people collectively.

Usage Examples of "Infant" as a noun

• The infant Labour Party.
• Healthy infants.
• Their first year at infant school.
• Infant mortality.

Associations of "Infant" (30 Words)

abort	Carry out or undergo the abortion of a fetus. He sent a short message requesting an abort due to extreme winds in the area.
adopted	Acquired as your own by free choice. My adopted state.
baby	Treat someone as a baby pamper or be overprotective towards. Clara was the baby of the family.
born	British nuclear physicist born in Germany honored for his contributions to quantum mechanics 1882 1970. They are born to rule.
cradle	Wash in a cradle. The Middle East is generally held to be the cradle of agriculture.
embryo	The part of a seed which develops into a plant consisting in the mature embryo of a higher plant of a plumule a radicle and one or two cotyledons. A simple commodity economy is merely the embryo of a capitalist economy.
filly	A young female horse, especially one less than four years old.
foal	Of a mare give birth to a foal. The mare foaled.
gestation	The period during which an embryo develops (about 266 days in humans. A thorough and painstaking work which was a long time in gestation.
infantile	Of or occurring among babies or very young children. Infantile games.
juvenile	An actor playing a juvenile role. The prey of juvenile owls.
kindergarten	(in North America) a class or school that prepares children, usually five- or six-year-olds, for the first year of formal education.
maternal	Characteristic of a mother- Dorothy Sayers. My maternal grandfather.
midwife	A person who helps to create or develop something. These women midwifed her.
miscarry	Suffer a miscarriage. Such a rash crime and one so very likely to miscarry.
mother	A woman who has given birth to a child also used as a term of address to your mother. She mothered her husband insisting he should take cod liver oil in the winter.
natal	Of or relating to the buttocks. He was living in the south many miles from his natal city.
neonatal	Relating to newborn children (or other mammals. Special attention is given to mortality in the neonatal period.
nursery	A place where young children are cared for during the working day a nursery school. A toy strewn nursery.
pregnancy	The condition or period of being pregnant. The first weeks of pregnancy.
pregnant	Filled with or attended with. She was six months pregnant.
prenatal	Before birth; during or relating to pregnancy. The prenatal period.
preschool	Relating to the time before a child is old enough to go to school. A preschool playgroup.
preschooler	A child who is not old enough to go to school. The show aimed at preschoolers emphasizes the importance of storytelling.
raising	Increasing in quantity or value. A cost raising increase in the basic wage rate.
scion	A descendant of a notable family. A scion of royal stock.
toddler	A young child who is just beginning to walk.
unborn	Not yet brought into existence. The sound of an unborn baby s heartbeat.
yearling	A racehorse in the calendar year after its year of foaling. The yearling market.
youngster	A young person of either sex. Tiddler is a British term for youngster.