puerile
21puerile — UK [ˈpjʊəraɪl] / US [ˈpjʊrəl] adjective formal like a silly young person, or like something they would say or do puerile nonsense …
22puerile — /ˈpjuəraɪl / (say pyoohuhruyl), /ˈpjʊəraɪl / (say pyoouhruyl) adjective 1. of or relating to a child or boy. 2. childishly foolish, irrational, or trivial: *And he would go on to tell me about passionate Spanish women and experienced French women …
23puerile — adj. 1 trivial, childish, immature. 2 of or like a child. Phrases and idioms: puerile breathing breathing characterized by a loud pulmonary murmur as in children, a sign of disease in an adult. Derivatives: puerilely adv. puerility n. (pl. ies).… …
24puerile person — index juvenile Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
25puerile — Synonyms and related words: asinine, babish, babyish, beardless, boyish, boylike, calflike, childish, childlike, coltish, foolish, girlish, girllike, immature, inconsequential, infantile, infantine, insignificant, irresponsible, juvenile, kiddish …
26puerile — {{hw}}{{puerile}}{{/hw}}agg. 1 Di fanciullo: età –p; SIN. Infantile. 2 (spreg.) Che rivela leggerezza o immaturità: discorso –p …
27puerile — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. trivial, foolish, trifling, weak, nonsensical; childish, immature, boyish, juvenile. See youth, ignorance.Ant., adult. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. boyish, young, inexperienced, immature; see… …
28puerile — [17] Latin puer denoted ‘child’, or more specifically ‘boy’ (like Greek pais ‘child’, source of English paediatric, pedagogue, etc, it came ultimately from a base which signified ‘smallness’, and also gave English pusillanimous). The derived… …
29puerile — pl.m. e f. puerili …
30puerile — Childish …
