Puerile

Quick meaning: Puerile is an adjective meaning Childish; trifling; silly.

Meaning

Childish; trifling; silly.

More Meanings

1. Characteristic of, or pertaining to, a boy or boys; compare puellile.

Example Sentences

1850, Thomas De Quincey, French and English Manners (originally published in Hogg's Instructor The French have been notorious through generations for their puerile affectation of Roman forms, models, and historic precedents.

[…] I have always found it hard that Hamlet, a character that I love and admire, is guilty of a puerile misogyny and, perhaps, more worryingly, of the unnecessary deaths of his old friends from university, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

But can there be anything more puerile, more short-sighted, than the views of those Economists who believe in all earnest that this woeful transitory state means nothing but adapting society to the acquisitive propensities of capitalists, both landlords and money-lords?

Today we should welcome, and even study, every serious attempt to envisage the future of our race, not merely to grasp the very diverse and often tragic possibilities that confront us, but also that we may familiarize ourselves with the certainty that many of our cherished ideals would seem puerile to more developed minds.

Synonyms for puerile

Depending on context, synonyms include juvenile, silly, trifling, babish, babyish, bairnish.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include juvenile, adolescent, jejune, immature, childish, asinine.

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