puerile
See also puérile
English
Etymology
From Latin puerīlis (“childish”), from puer (“child, boy”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
puerile (comparative more puerile, superlative most puerile)
- Characteristic of, or pertaining to, a boy or boys; confer: puellile.
- Childish; trifling; silly.
- (Can we date this quote?) De Quincey:
- The French have been notorious through generations for their puerile affectation of Roman forms, models, and historic precedents.
- 1927, Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, page 79:
- From the table he had received the gout; from the alcove a tendency to convulsions; from the grandeeship a pride so vast and puerile that he seldom heard anything that was said to him and talked to the ceiling in a perpetual monologue; from the exile, oceans of boredom, a boredom so persuasive that it was like pain,—he woke up with it and spent the day with it, and it sat by his bed all night watching his sleep.
- (Can we date this quote?) De Quincey:
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
characteristic of, or pertaining to, a boy or boys
childish; trifling; silly.
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See also
Italian
Adjective
puerile m and f (m and f plural puerili)
Synonyms
Related terms
- puerilmente
- puerilicultura
- puerilità
- puerilismo
- puerizia