Puerile

What do we mean by puerile?

Immature, especially in being silly or trivial; childish. synonym: young. adjective

Belonging to childhood; juvenile. adjective

Of or pertaining to a boy or child; boyish; childish; juvenile.

Hence Merely childish; lacking intellectual force; trivial: as, a puerile criticism.

Synonyms Juvenile, Boyish, etc. (see youthful).

Weak, foolish, silly.

Boyish; childish; trifling; silly. adjective

Characteristic of, or pertaining to, a boy or boys; confer: puellile. adjective

Childish; trifling; silly. adjective

Of or characteristic of a child adjective

Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity adjective

Childish; trifling; silly.

Characteristic of, or pertaining to, a boy or boys; compare puellile.

Childish; suited for children, trivial Urban Dictionary

Act of childish behaviour GJB Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to puerile:
puerile, pueril.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word puerile:
rubbish, humour, humor, thomson, guardian, behaviour, offensive, plot, comedy, nothing, sexual, review, less, idea, stars.

Words that rhyme with puerile:
deal, seal, appeal, wheel, feel, steel, steal, surreal, real, reel, heel, reveal, ideal, peel, zeal, kneel, keel, meal, repeal, ordeal, teal, eel, piecemeal, heal, conceal, spiel, automobile, peal, genteel, anneal, creel, kreel, squeal, stele, keal, veal, congeal, creal, abele, audiophile, speel, unreal, oatmeal, beal, smeal, immobile, glockenspiel, seel, neil, leal, neal, riel, steele, emile, lille, emil, snowmobile, ezekiel, weil, viel, flywheel, ciel, newsreel, lucille, cartwheel, diel, brasil, ferris wheel, teel, kiel, corneal, cornmeal, beale, camille, peale, banana peel, stael, cele, beau ideal, neill, deel, bookmobile, neel, mele, reseal, verrill, scheele, unseal, oneal, oneill, tweel, steering wheel, shaquille, stainless steel, peele, beall, fifth wheel, vielle, biel, adriel.

Adjectives that are often used to describe puerile:
mere, most, worst, such, same.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective puerile:
vanity, superstition, respiration, breathing, conceits, character, superstitions, conceit, attempts, nonsense, ambition, taste, idea, efforts, thing, attempt, amusements, notions, ideas, kind, pleasure, productions, absurdities, manner, fancy, fables, stories, stuff, fancies, imitation, arguments, fiction, tales, fears, pride, argument, questions, game, details, fashion, objections, desire, conception, fear, anecdotes, age, imagination, folly, behavior, mind, performance, allusion, conceptions, ceremonies, affectation, declamations, weakness, notion, joy, performances, question, games, jokes, sports, hypothesis, style, vanities, fantasies, illusions, writer, curiosity, delight, distinctions, absurdity, speculations, reason, legends, effort, impatience, credulity, play, fictions, reasons, amusement, fallacies, jealousy, explanations, inventions, pedantry, doctrines, description, enthusiasm, fantasy, simplicity.

Consonant match to puerile:
pure all, pure il, purile.

Words that sound like puerile:
puerile, purell, pueril, buehrle, peril, plural, pura, parrel, parral, pleural, perel, pujol, pugil, puran, buil, buell, bura, parel, parelle, buehring, pupil, payroll, puree, perusal, pay roll, pril, puru, pupal, petrel, puro, pickerel, pareil, puer, durell, putra, pubertal, prl, pickrell, prel, pickerell, peul, biaural, barrel, bugle, beryl, humoral, bugel, buccal, burrel, butyl, burak, borrel, baril, boral, borel, buran, humeral, burel, buras, burell, buron, burrill, barile, berrill, buechel, puing, prill, prell, purin, patrol, patrole, piura, apparel, parcel, partial, parole, mural, para, neural, parl, parol, parra, parle, parnell, payal, paschal, parshall, beutel, curiel, apperil, parah, para-, paarl, pausal, parnel, beril, paura, parial, hewell, appareil.