Baby-faced

Quick meaning: Baby-faced is an adjective meaning Having a face that appears childlike, innocent, or youthful.

Meaning

Having a face that appears childlike, innocent, or youthful.

Example Sentences

Michelle was of the opinion that all the best con artists were baby-faced, since that inspires trust in others.

“You know what? Fine. I’m going to give them the cutest, furriest, biggest-eyed, and babiest-faced mammal on the planet, and then I’m going to make it chomp venomous desert vipers to death. How about that?” “Yeah, they’re still going to think it’s cute.”

[David] Caruso’s at his best in control of things as an island of calm fury. Here, looking like a babier-faced Alan Ladd, he’s hardly in charge even of his own destiny as an ex-petty thief who, forced by a cousin to do one more run, is caught, jailed, loses his wife in a car crash, and suffers the final indignity of having to turn police informer to secure permanent freedom.

Word Forms

• babier-faced
• babiest-faced
• babyfaced

Synonyms for baby-faced

Depending on context, synonyms include fresh-faced, juvenile, youngsome, faced.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include faced, babylike, child-like, dewy-eyed, childlike, young.

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