Definition of "puerile" [pu•er•ile]

• Belonging to childhood; juvenile. (adjective)
• Immature; childish. See Synonyms at young. (adjective)

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• "Maitland in his _Account of the Early Printed Books at Lambeth_, 1843, already takes occasion to animadvert on what he terms the puerile competition for rarities, which had then set in."
• "Your example of email being maligned as puerile is just a case in point."
• "I view Goodling's use of the word as an attempt to deny responsibility for her actions by seeing herself in puerile terms."