What puerile behaviour! Grow up!
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Puerile
//ˈpjʊə.ɹaɪl//
Synonyms for "puerile" (162 found)
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Adjective(21 words)
harebrainedass-brainedbabishbaby-brainedbabyishbairnishbairnlybasebee-brainedbeetle-headedbirdbrainedboneheadedboobilyboobyboofheadedbrainlessbuffle-headedbullet-headedchildishchowderheaded
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Adjective(65 words)
jolterheadedjuvenilekiddishlacklusterlactifluouslike a fart in a windstormlumpishlunkheadedmeagermeanmeatheadedmentally challengedmilkyminormuttonheadednegligiblenittynondescriptnothingburgernumbskulled
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paltrypeabrainedpettypicayunepicayunishpiddlingpiddlypissantpitifulpointlesspudding-headedpurblindrockheadedsheep-headedshit-for-brainssillysimpleslightslow on the uptakeslow-wittedsluggishsmooth-brainedstolidstupidthickthick as a brickthick as a plankthick as a whale omelettethick as mincethick as pig shitthick as two short planksthickheadedtin-pottriflingtrivialtwo-bitunderbrainedunimportantunintelligentunweightyvacuousvainwoodenheadedworthlesswretched
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7 translations across 7 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- момчешки adj (characteristic of, or pertaining to, a boy or boys)
Ido
1 entries- puerala adj (characteristic of, or pertaining to, a boy or boys)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- barnslig adj (characteristic of, or pertaining to, a boy or boys)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- barnsleg adj (characteristic of, or pertaining to, a boy or boys)
Russian
1 entries- мальчи́шеский adj (characteristic of, or pertaining to, a boy or boys)
Spanish
1 entries- pueril adj (characteristic of, or pertaining to, a boy or boys)
Ukrainian
1 entries- хлоп'ячий adj (characteristic of, or pertaining to, a boy or boys)
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Is this another one of your puerile jokes?
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1850, Thomas De Quincey, French and English Manners (originally published in Hogg's Instructor The French have been notorious through generations for their puerile affectation of Roman forms, models, and historic precedents.
Source: wiktionary
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.
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