PUERILE Synonyms

• of or relating to or characteristic of or appropriate for children or young people

• a young person, not fully developed

• displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity

• a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk

• the youngest member of a group (not necessarily young)

• an immature childish person

• an unborn child; a human fetus

• a very young mammal

• a project of personal concern to someone

• a beloved person; used as terms of endearment

• treat with excessive indulgence

• characteristic of a baby

• indicating a lack of maturity

• characteristic of a lack of maturity

• (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth

• not fully developed or mature; not ripe

• not yet mature

• (of birds) not yet having developed feathers

• of or relating to infants or infancy

• indicating a lack of maturity

• being or befitting or characteristic of an infant

• informal term for a young child

• marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience

• of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style

• inexperienced

• lacking information or instruction

• not initiated; deficient in relevant experience

• the central area of a church

• full of fun and high spirits

• (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth

• any immature animal

• United States film and television actress (1913-2000)

• young people collectively

• United States civil rights leader (1921-1971)

• British physicist and Egyptologist; he revived the wave theory of light and proposed a three-component theory of color vision; he also played an important role in deciphering the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone (1773-1829)

• United States jazz tenor saxophonist (1909-1959)

• English poet (1683-1765)

• United States baseball player and famous pitcher (1867-1955)

• United States religious leader of the Mormon Church after the assassination of Joseph Smith; he led the Mormon exodus from Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah (1801-1877)

• (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity

• suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh

• being in its early stage

• not tried or tested by experience

• suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh

• a word used for misbehaving children

• ludicrous, foolish

• lacking seriousness; given to frivolity

• inspiring scornful pity

• dazed from or as if from repeated blows

• the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working

• not worth considering

• relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent

• a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity

• being of the age 13 through 19

• displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity

• in the state of development between puberty and maturity

• of insufficient quantity to meet a need

• displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity

• lacking interest or significance or impact