Synonyms of the word

puerile

• adj. Characteristic of, or pertaining to, a boy or boys; confer: puellile.
• adj. Childish; trifling; silly.

adolescent

• adj. Characteristic of, or relating to, or undergoing adolescence; immature.
• n. A teenager; a juvenile after puberty.

immature

• adj. Not fully formed or developed, unripe, not mature.
• adj. Childish in behavior, not mature.
• n. An immature member of a species.

issue

• n. The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly.
• n. Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly.
• n. The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly.
• n. The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet, particularly.
• n. The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly.
• n. Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly.
• n. The action or an instance of concluding something, particularly.
• n. The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly.
• n. (figuratively, now rare) The action or an instance of feeling some emotion.
• n. (figuratively, now rare) The action or an instance of leaving any state or condition.
• n. (figuratively, originally WWI military slang, usually with definite article) All of something.
• v. To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.
• v. To rush out, to sally forth.
• v. To extend into, to open onto.
• v. To turn out in a certain way, to result in.
• v. (law) To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
• v. To send out; to put into circulation.
• v. To deliver for use.
• v. To deliver by authority.

jejune

• adj. Not nutritious.
• adj. Lacking matter; empty; devoid of substance.
• adj. Naive; simplistic.

juvenile

• adj. young; not fully developed.
• adj. characteristic of youth or immaturity; childish.
• n. A prepubescent child.
• n. A person not legally of age, or who is younger than may be charged with an offence.
• n. An animal that is not sexually mature.
• n. An actor playing a child's role.
• n. A publication for young adult readers.

offspring

• n. A person's daughter(s) and/or son(s); a person's children.
• n. All a person's descendants, including further generations.
• n. An animal or plant's progeny, an animal or plant's young.
• n. (figuratively) Another produce, result of an entity's efforts.
• n. (computing) A process launched by another process.

progeny

• n. (uncountable) Offspring or descendants.
• n. (countable) A result of a creative effort.