Antonyms for puerile
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : pyoo-er-il, -uh-rahyl, pyoor-il, -ahyl |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpyu ər ɪl, -əˌraɪl, ˈpyʊər ɪl, -aɪl |
Definition of puerile
Origin :- 1660s, "youthful, boyish," a back-formation from puerility, or else from French puéril (15c.), from Latin puerilis "boyish; childish," from puer "boy, child" (see puerility). Disparaging sense, "juvenile, immature," is from 1680s.
- adj childish
- Their falsehoods were puerile, their affirmations ridiculous.
- Extract from : « Therese Raquin » by Emile Zola
- He only issued from his torpor at night to fall into blind and puerile fits of anger.
- Extract from : « Therese Raquin » by Emile Zola
- The ideal is as impracticable as it is puerile and retrograde.
- Extract from : « Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) » by John Morley
- We are too absorbed in the puerile interests and occupations of daily life.
- Extract from : « The Golden Fountain » by Lilian Staveley
- The officers took, as usual, a puerile revenge in the form of a burlesque.
- Extract from : « The Siege of Boston » by Allen French
- The words that passed between us were few and puerile in regard of the situation.
- Extract from : « The Shadow-Line » by Joseph Conrad
- And then, as to the man himself, how puerile it is to give him this importance!
- Extract from : « Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General » by Charles Lever
- How puerile has been the teaching that we can sin against the Eternal God.
- Extract from : « Sex=The Unknown Quantity » by Ali Nomad
- Yet in their religious acts they were often bigoted, intolerant and puerile.
- Extract from : « The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 » by Various
- What puerile trumpery is that refusal of a man to reveal his name!
- Extract from : « Old Fogy » by James Huneker
Synonyms for puerile
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