Word of the Day – Puerile

• Adjective: Puerile
• Adverb: Puerilely
• Noun: Puerility
  1. silly or childish especially in a way that shows a lack of seriousness or good judgment
  2. childishly silly and trivial
•  Synonyms:
  1. childish
  2. immature
  3. infantile
  4. juvenile
  5. babyish
• Usage:
  1. “It is thus that, athwart the cloud which formed about him, when all his hopes were extinguished one after the other, M. Mabeuf remained rather puerilely, but profoundly serene.”
• Encountered:
  1.  While reading Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

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