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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: puerile (0.00890 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to puerile.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: puerile
puerile
adj 1: of or characteristic of a child;
“puerile breathing”
2: displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity;
“adolescent
insecurity”;
“jejune responses to our problems”;
“their
behavior was juvenile”;
“puerile jokes” [syn:
adolescent,
jejune,
juvenile]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Puerile
Puerile
\Pu"er*ile\, a. [L. puerilis, fr. puer a child, a boy:
cf. F. pu['e]ril.]
Boyish; childish; trifling; silly.
[1913 Webster]
The French have been notorious through generations for
their puerile affectation of Roman forms, models, and
historic precedents. --De Quincey.
[1913 Webster]
Syn: Youthful; boyish; juvenile; childish; trifling; weak.
See
Youthful.
[1913 Webster]
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