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puerileadjective having or showing the annoying qualities (as silliness) associated with childrentold the teenagers that such puerile behavior would not be tolerated during the ceremony adolescent, babyish, childish, immature, infantile, jejune, juvenile, kiddish boyish, brattish, bratty, girlie(or girly), girlishchildlike, innocent, naive(or naïve), simple, simplistic, unsophisticated adult, grown-up, mature unchildlikecosmopolitan, experienced, knowing, smart, sophisticated, worldly, worldly-wise lacking in adult experience or maturityallowed the company to be taken over by a bunch of puerile whippersnappers fresh out of business school adolescent, callow, green, immature, inexperienced, juvenile, raw, unfledged, unformed, unripe, unripened babyish, childish, infantile, infantilized, infantineboyish, girlish, juvenescent, kiddish, young, youngish, youthfulmaidenly, virginalingenuous, innocent, naive(or naïve), tenderunknowing, unseasoned, unsophisticated, untrained, untried wet behind the ears adult, experienced, grown-up, mature, ripe advanced, precociousknowing, savvy, sophisticated, worldly, worldly-wise lacking in seriousness or maturitythe kind of puerile jokes that teenage moviegoers apparently love birdbrained, ditzy(or ditsy), dizzy, featherbrained, flighty, frivolous, frothy, futile, giddy, goofy, harebrained, light-headed, light-minded, scatterbrained, silly, yeasty fatuous, foolish, inane, nonsensical, thoughtless, witlesscrazy, daffy, daft, fruityexuberant, flippant, fluttery, giggly, happy, light, lighthearted, playfulsappy, shallow, superficial earnest, serious, serious-minded, sober, unfrivolous grave, melancholy, somber(or sombre), thoughtfuldignified, heavy, no-nonsense, sedate, severe, solemn, staid in 1527 |