Puerile
Puerile adjective - Lacking in seriousness or maturity.
Usage example: the kind of puerile jokes that teenage moviegoers apparently love
Superficial and puerile are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Superficial" instead an adjective "Puerile".
Nearby Word: puerility
Superficial
Superficial adjective - Lying on or affecting only the outer layer of something.
Puerile and superficial are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Puerile" instead an adjective "Superficial".
Nearby Word: superficiality
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- light and puerile
- light and superficial
- thoughtless and puerile
- thoughtless and superficial
- shallow and puerile
- shallow and superficial
- empty and puerile
- empty and superficial
- petty and puerile
- petty and superficial
- flippant and puerile
- flippant and superficial
- careless and puerile
- careless and superficial
Both words in one sentence
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Several commentators went so far as to suggest that Leto's puerile, superficial view of the Method and resulting bad performance (his behaviour being so insufferable that his coworkers couldn't talk to him about the film) may have caused the whole pursuit to fall out of fashion.
Source: Method Acting
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