Thesaurus / puerility
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synonyms for puerility
- silliness
- lunacy
- apathy
- ignorance
- nonsense
- idiocy
- absurdity
- simplicity
- stupor
- stolidity
- fatuity
- weakness
- sluggishness
- ineptitude
- insensibility
- imprudence
- incapacity
- stupefaction
- slowness
- imbecility
- fatuousness
- obtuseness
- asininity
- injudiciousness
- shallowness
- battiness
- brainlessness
- doltishness
- feeble-mindedness
- nitwittedness
- stupidness
- thick-headedness
- weak-mindedness
- ignorance
- imperfection
- rawness
- greenness
- inexpertness
- incompleteness
- childishness
- callowness
- infantilism
- babyishness
- childish behavior
- levity
- whimsy
- gaiety
- jest
- sport
- frippery
- triviality
- lightheartedness
- trifling
- play
- giddiness
- flirting
- nonsense
- game
- lightness
- volatility
- folly
- fun
- flightiness
- flippancy
- shallowness
- frivolousness
- whimsicality
- flummery
- superficiality
- toying
- coquetting
- dallying
- fribble
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How to use puerility in a sentence
I must not say David: he, to be sure, is far above any such puerility.
THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY, VOLUME I (OF 2)FLORENCE A. THOMAS MARSHALLA long pinafore, and a child's cap, are employed to carry out the theory of his puerility.
ROWLANDSON THE CARICATURIST. FIRST VOLUMEJOSEPH GREGOThe habits and dress of the people have always been primitive, and their laws simple to puerility.
ALONZO FITZ AND OTHER STORIESMARK TWAIN (SAMUEL CLEMENS)And we bolster up our satisfaction by pointing to some mistake of logic or some puerility of statement.
A PREFACE TO POLITICSWALTER LIPPMANNEternal puerility of penal repressions applied to things of the soul!
THE GREAT EVENTS BY FAMOUS HISTORIANS, VOLUME 03VARIOUSAnd the seeming puerility of this effort to salve the wounds inflicted upon Nature had filled her with pitying contempt.
THE MAN IN THE TWILIGHTRIDGWELL CULLUMCriticism is of an abject density and puerility—it doesn't exist—it writes the intellect of our race too low.
THE LETTERS OF HENRY JAMES (VOLUME I)HENRY JAMESWhen the wilderness came to be settled by white men, courts were feeble to puerility, and every man was a law unto himself.
OUR SOUTHERN HIGHLANDERSHORACE KEPHARTBut, the Sun will shine cheerfully for all the world in spite of puerility.
WHY A NATIONAL LITERATURE CANNOT FLOURISH IN THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICAJOSEPH ROCCHIETTIThe manner in which the nature of the distinct and indestructible atom was arrived at, shows the puerility of the theory.
STUDIES IN THE OUT-LYING FIELDS OF PSYCHIC SCIENCEHUDSON TUTTLEWORDS RELATED TO PUERILITY
- coquettings
- dallyings
- flightiness
- flippancies
- flirtings
- flummeries
- follies
- fribbles
- fripperies
- frivolousnesses
- fun
- gaiety
- games
- giddiness
- jests
- levities
- lightheartedness
- lightnesses
- nonsense
- plays
- puerilities
- shallowness
- sports
- superficialities
- toyings
- triflings
- trivialities
- volatilities
- whimsicalities
- whimsies
- absurdity
- apathy
- asininity
- battiness
- brainlessness
- doltishness
- fatuity
- fatuousness
- feeble-mindedness
- idiocy
- ignorance
- imbecility
- imprudence
- incapacity
- ineptitude
- injudiciousness
- insensibility
- lunacy
- nitwittedness
- nonsense
- obtuseness
- puerility
- shallowness
- silliness
- simplicity
- slowness
- sluggishness
- stolidity
- stupefaction
- stupidness
- stupor
- thick-headedness
- weak-mindedness
- weakness
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.