puerile
Plural: pueriler, puerilest
Adjective
- Childishly silly, immature, or trivial.
- of or characteristic of a child
- "puerile breathing"
Adjective Satellite
- displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity
- "puerile jokes"
Adj
- Childish; trifling; silly.
- Characteristic of, or pertaining to, a boy or boys; compare puellile.
Examples
- His opponent’s PUERILE taunts did little to distract him from his winning strategy.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin puerīlis (“childish”), from puer (“child, boy”).
Synonyms
adolescent, jejune, juvenile, babish, babyish, bairnish, base, childish, contemptible, dootsie, foolish, for the birds, frivolous, futile, hissy, idle, ignorable, immaterial, immature, inconsequential, inconsiderable, indifferent, infantile, infantine, insignificant, kiddish, lactifluous, like a fart in a windstorm, meager, mean, milky, minor, negligible, nondescript, nothingburger, paltry, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddly, pissant, pitiful, pointless, puerile, silly, simple, slight, tin-pot, trifling, trivial, two-bit, unimportant, unweighty, vain, worthless, wretched
Scrabble Score: 9
puerile: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordpuerile: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
puerile: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary