Word Meanings - PUERILE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Boyish; childish; trifling; silly. The French have been notorious through generations for their puerile affectation of Roman forms, models, and historic precedents. De Quincey. Syn. -- Youthful; boyish; juvenile; childish; trifling; weak.

Additional info about word: PUERILE

Boyish; childish; trifling; silly. The French have been notorious through generations for their puerile affectation of Roman forms, models, and historic precedents. De Quincey. Syn. -- Youthful; boyish; juvenile; childish; trifling; weak. See Youthful.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PUERILE)

• Childish
• Weak
• silly
• puerile
• infantine
• imbecile
• foolish
• trifling
• paltry
• trivial
• Flimsy
• Gauzy
• poor
• thin
• transparent
• inane
• slight
• superficial
• weak
• shallow
• Infantile
• Puerile
• childish
• Juvenile
• Youthful
• young
• boyish
• girlish
• early
• immature
• adolescent
• pubescent
• fresh
• unripe
• callow
• beardless

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PUERILE)

• Regard
• respect
• notice
• observe

Related words: (words related to PUERILE)

• YOUNGISH
  Somewhat young. Tatler.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• CHILDISHNESS
  The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• FRESHNESS
  The state of being fresh. The Scots had the advantage both for number and freshness of men. Hayward. And breathe the freshness of the open air. Dryden. Her cheeks their freshness lose and wonted grace. Granville.
• SILLYHOW
  A caul. See Caul, n., 3.
• FRESHET
  1. A stream of fresh water. Milton. 2. A flood or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation. Cracked the sky, as ice in rivers When the freshet is at highest. Longfellow.
• YOUNG
  , , AS. geong; akin to OFries. iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. & Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L. juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva, juven. Junior, Juniper, 1. Not long born; still in the first part of
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• YOUNGTH
  Youth. Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath. Spenser.
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• RESPECT
  An expression of respect of deference; regards; as, to send one's respects to another. 4. Reputation; repute. Many of the best respect in Rome. Shak. 5. Relation; reference; regard. They believed but one Supreme Deity, which, with respect to the
• IMBECILE
  Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; esp., mentally wea; feeble-minded; as, hospitals for the imbecile and insane. Syn. -- Weak; feeble; feeble-minded; idiotic.
• CHILDISH
  1. Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. "Childish innocence." Macaulay. 2. Peurile; trifling; weak. Methinks that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent. Addison. Note: Childish, as applied tc persons who
• UNRIPENESS
  Quality or state of being unripe.
• NOTICE
  1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge
• RESPECTER
  One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x.
• YOUNGNESS
  The quality or state of being young.
• FRESHLY
  In a fresh manner; vigorously; newly, recently; brightly; briskly; coolly; as, freshly gathered; freshly painted; the wind blows freshly. Looks he as freshly as he did Shak.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• ADOLESCENT
  Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper. (more info) up to; ad + the inchoative olescere to grow: cf. F. adolescent. See
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• YOUNGLY
  Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. Shak.
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
• HALF-YEARLY
  Two in a year; semiannual. -- adv. Twice in a year; semiannually.