Usually means: Childish, immature behavior or attitude.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word puerile:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. puerile: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. puerile: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. puerile: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. puerile: Collins English Dictionary
  5. puerile: Vocabulary.com
  6. Puerile, puerile: Wordnik
  7. puerile: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. puerile: Wiktionary
  9. puerile: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. puerile: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. puerile: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. puerile: Dictionary.com
  13. Puerile: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Puerile: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. puerile: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. puerile: Rhymezone
  17. puerile, puerile: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. puerile: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. puerile: Free Dictionary
  20. puerile: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. puerile: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  22. puerile: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. puerile: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. puerile: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. puerile: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. 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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