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puerile (iou)



puerile adjective. L16.
[French pueril or Latin puerilis, from puer boy, child: see -ILE.]
Of or like a boy or child. Freq. derog., trivial, childish, immature. L16.
M. Dickens She would boast, or use puerile slang expressions from school.
Medicine. Of respiration: characterized by a louder pulmonary murmur as found in children, which in adults is usu. a sign of disease. Now rare or obsolete. E19.
puerilely adverb M18.
puerileness noun puerility E18.
puerilism noun (Psychiatry & Psychology) the state or condition of behaving like a child, childish behaviour; spec. (a) (in an adult) a reversion to infantile behaviour, usu. as a symptom of mental illness; (b) (in a child) that stage of normal development which follows infantilism and precedes puberty: M20.