Usually means: Childish, immature behavior or attitude.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word puerile:

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  1. puerile: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. puerile: Merriam-Webster
  3. puerile: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. puerile: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. puerile: Collins English Dictionary
  6. puerile: Vocabulary.com
  7. Puerile, puerile: Wordnik
  8. puerile: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. puerile: Wiktionary
  10. puerile: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. puerile: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. puerile: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. puerile: Dictionary.com
  14. Puerile: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Puerile: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. puerile: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. puerile: Rhymezone
  18. puerile, puerile: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. puerile: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. puerile: FreeDictionary.org
  21. puerile: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. puerile: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. puerile: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. puerile: Legal dictionary

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  1. puerile: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. puerile: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. puerile: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. puerile: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See puerilely as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Childish; trifling; silly.
adjective:  Characteristic of, or pertaining to, a boy or boys; compare puellile.

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