puerile
Meanings
Adjective
- 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.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin puerīlis (“childish”), from puer (“child, boy”).
Synonyms
adolescent, babish, babyish, bairnish, base, childish, contemptible, dootsie, foolish, for the birds, frivolous, futile, hissy, idle, ignorable, immaterial, immature, inconsequential, inconsiderable, indifferent, infantile, infantine, insignificant, jejune, juvenile, 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 is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordpuerile is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
puerile is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary