adolescent, jejune, juvenile, puerile
(adjective) displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; “adolescent insecurity”; “jejune responses to our problems”; “their behavior was juvenile”; “puerile jokes”
puerile
(adjective) of or characteristic of a child; “puerile breathing”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
puerile (comparative more puerile, superlative most puerile)
Childish; trifling; silly.
Synonyms: juvenile, silly, trifling, Thesaurus:childish, Thesaurus:insignificant
Characteristic of, or pertaining to, a boy or boys; compare puellile.
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Source: Wiktionary
Pu"er*ile, a. Etym: [L. puerilis, fr. puer a child, a boy: cf. F. puéril.]
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 May 2025
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
