N2994/1725

幼よう稚ち

nounnoun (generic)な adjectiveadjective (generic)

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ようち

Meanings

infancy
childish, infantile, immature, primitive

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Example sentences

彼かれの発言はつげんは幼稚ようちで、周まわりの人ひとを呆あきれさせた。

His remarks were childish and left the people around him exasperated.

そんな幼稚ようちな考かんがえ方かたでは、社会しゃかいでは通用つうようしない。

Such an immature way of thinking will not work in society.

大人おとなになっても幼稚ようちな振ふる舞まいをする人ひとがいる。

There are people who behave in a childish manner even as adults.

彼女かのじょはその議論ぎろんを幼稚ようちだと一蹴いっしゅうした。

She dismissed that argument as immature.

人類じんるいの初期しょきの技術ぎじゅつは現代げんだいと比くらべれば幼稚ようちなものであったが、それでも当時とうじの人々ひとびとの知恵ちえを反映はんえいしていた。

Early human technology was primitive compared to modern times, but it still reflected the wisdom of the people of that era.

Related words

潜るもぐる

to dive (into or under water); to get under, to get into, to get in, to creep into, to crawl under, to bury oneself, to burrow into, to dig oneself into, to snuggle under; to hide oneself (esp. from the government), to conceal oneself, to go underground

上下じょうげ

top and bottom, high and low, above and below, upper and lower ends, up and down; going up and down, rising and falling, fluctuating; going and coming back; upper and lower classes, ruler and ruled, the government and the people; first and second volumes; top and bottom, two-piece (outfit)

突くつく

to prick, to stab; to poke, to prod, to push, to thrust, to nudge, to hit, to strike; to use (a cane), to prop oneself up with, to press against (the floor, etc.); to attack; to brave (the rain, etc.)