puerile : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: puerile	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for puerile
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
puerile adj of or characteristic of a child; "puerile breathing" displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes" Synonym(s): adolescent, jejune, juvenile, puerile
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Puerile \Pu"erile\, a. [L. puerilis, fr. puer a child, a boy: cf. F. pu[82]ril.] Boyish; childish; trifling; silly. The French have been notorious through generations for their puerile* affectation of Roman forms, models, and historic precedents. --De Quincey. Syn: Youthful; boyish; juvenile; childish; trifling; weak. See {Youthful}.