Puerile

Adjective

 * 1) Characteristic of, or pertaining to, a boy or boys; confer: puellile.
 * 2) Childish; trifling; silly.
 * 3) * De Quincey:
 * The French have been notorious through generations for their puerile affectation of Roman forms, models, and historic precedents.
 * 1) * 1927, Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, page 79:
 * From the table he had received the gout; from the alcove a tendency to convulsions; from the grandeeship a pride so vast and puerile that he seldom heard anything that was said to him and talked to the ceiling in a perpetual monologue; from the exile, oceans of boredom, a boredom so persuasive that it was like pain,&mdash;he woke up with it and spent the day with it, and it sat by his bed all night watching his sleep.

Synonyms

 * : juvenile, silly, trifling,

Derived terms

 * puerility

Adverbs for Puerile
pitiably; inexplicably; frivolously; ridiculously; unfortunately; fatuously; inanely; trivially; surprisingly; hopelessly; vacuous-  adjectivesly; ineptly. choral; throbbing; violent; new; bounding fluttering; burning.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From puerilis: < puer:.

Translations

 * French: puéril
 * Italian: puerile, infantile
 * Latin: puerīlis


 * Polish: infantylny, dziecinny
 * Spanish: pueril

Adjective

 * 1) puerile, childish, juvenile, boyish
 * 2)  children's (attribute), baby (attribute)

Synonyms

 * infantile

Related terms

 * puerilmente
 * puerilicultura
 * puerilità
 * puerilismo

Anagrams

 * pelurie