puerile

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
puerile
    adj 1: of or characteristic of a child; "puerile breathing"
    2: displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent
       insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their
       behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes" [syn: {adolescent},
       {jejune}, {juvenile}, {puerile}]
from 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]
from 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
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