Definition of puerile in English Turkish dictionary
- (Tıp) pueril
- çocuksu
- aptalca
- çocukça
Bu senin çocukça şakalarından başka biri mi?
-Is this another one of your puerile jokes?
- (Tıp) Çocuğa veya çocukluk çağına ait
- {s} boş
- childish
- {s} çocuksu
Onun davranışını çocuksu buluyoruz.
-We consider his behavior childish.
Öyle çocuksu olmayın.
-Don't be so childish.
- childish
- çocuk gibi
- childish
- saçma
- childish
- çocukça
Böyle çocukça bir soru asla sormazdım.
-I'd never ask such a childish question.
O, çocukça bir harekettir.
-It is a childish act.
- childish
- childishness çocuksuluk
- childish
- çocuğumsu
- childish
- childishly çocukça
- puerilely
- aptalca/çocukça
- puerility
- {i} çocukluk
- puerility
- aptallık/çocukluk
- puerility
- {i} çocuksu davranış
- puerility
- {i} çocukça söz
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Definition of puerile in English English dictionary
- Characteristic of, or pertaining to, a boy or boys; confer: puellile
- Childish; trifling; silly
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.
- childish
- {a} childish, boyish, giddy, trifling, simple
- {s} juvenile, immature; childish, silly, nonsensical; trivial
- displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes"
- of or characteristic of a child; "puerile breathing
- Boyish; childish; trifling; silly
- Characteristic of or pertaining to, a boy or boys; confer: puellile
- disapproval If you describe someone or something as puerile, you mean that they are silly and childish. Concert organisers branded the group's actions as puerile puerile, schoolboy humour. silly and stupid = childish (puéril, from puerilis, from puer )
- of or characteristic of a child; "puerile breathing"
- puerility
- The state, quality, or condition of being childish or puerile
- puerility
- {n} childishness, boyishness, folly
- puerilely
- childishly, in a silly manner; immaturely, in a juvenile manner
- puerilely
- In a puerile manner; childishly
- puerility
- The quality of being puerile; childishness; puerileness
- puerility
- That which is puerile or childish; especially, an expression which is flat, insipid, or silly
- puerility
- a property characteristic of a child
- puerility
- the state of a child between infancy and adolescence
- puerility
- {i} immaturity, childishness; triviality; silliness, nonsensicalness