Infant

Noun

 * 1) A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age, needing almost constant care and/or attention.
 * 2)  A minor.

Adjectives for Infant
well-educated; squalling; bewildered; undipped; unvaccinated; sucking; clay-faced; blue-lipped; baptized; conventional; miraculous; swaddling; ragged; hungry; mute; speechless; suffering; sentient; premature; trustful; vigorous.

Verbs for Infant
ten—; cradle—; cuddle—; govern—; guard—; guide—;  pamper—;  quell—; soothe—; suckle—; swaddle—; swathe—; wean—; —bawls; —chatters; —howls; — mewls; —prattles; —pukes; —scampers about; —squalls.

Thesaurus
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, abecedarian, aboriginal, adolescent, angel, antenatal, apprentice, arrested, autochthonous, babe, babish, baby, baby bunting, babyish, bambino, bantling, bay, beginner, beginning, budding, callow, catechumen,

Etymology
infantem:, a noun use of the adjective meaning 'not able to speak', from in-: + fans:, present participle of fari:.

Related terms

 * infanticide
 * infantile

Translations

 * Armenian: ,
 * Chinese: 婴儿 (yīngér)
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:, infana
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: nourisson
 * German: ,
 * Greek: βρέφος [ˈvre̞fo̞s], νήπιο [ˈnipiˌo̞]
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Interlingua: infante


 * Italian: ,
 * Latin:
 * Lojban:
 * Nahuatl: cozcapantica
 * Romanian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: watoto wachanga
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: శిశువు (SiSuvu), పసిపాప (pasipaapa)
 * Turkish:


 * Armenian: անչափահաս
 * Danish: mindreårig


 * Hungarian: kiskorú
 * Italian: ,