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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. of or characteristic of a child;
- Example: "puerile breathing"

2. displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity;
- Example: "adolescent insecurity"
- Example: "jejune responses to our problems"
- Example: "their behavior was juvenile"
- Example: "puerile jokes"
[syn: adolescent, jejune, juvenile, puerile]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Puerile \Pu"er*ile\, a. [L. puerilis, fr. puer a child, a boy:
   cf. F. pu['e]ril.]
   Boyish; childish; trifling; silly.
   [1913 Webster]

         The French have been notorious through generations for
         their puerile affectation of Roman forms, models, and
         historic precedents.                     --De Quincey.
   [1913 Webster]

   Syn: Youthful; boyish; juvenile; childish; trifling; weak.
        See Youthful.
        [1913 Webster]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

31 Moby Thesaurus words for "puerile":
   asinine, babish, babyish, beardless, boyish, boylike, calflike,
   childish, childlike, coltish, foolish, girlish, girllike, immature,
   inconsequential, infantile, infantine, insignificant,
   irresponsible, juvenile, kiddish, maiden, maidenly, puplike,
   puppyish, puppylike, ridiculous, shallow, silly, sophomoric,
   trivial