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