Vernal vs Puerile - What's the difference?
vernal | puerile |
Pertaining to spring.
Young; fresh. (rfex)
Belonging to youth.
* Thomson
* Keble
Characteristic of, or pertaining to, a boy or boys; confer : puellile.
Childish; trifling; silly.
* (rfdate) De Quincey:
* 1927 , , page 79:
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.vernal
English
Alternative forms
* vernall “vernal, a.'' (and ''n.'')” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989)
Adjective
(en adjective)- when after the long vernal day of life
- And seems it hard thy vernal' years / Few ' vernal joys can show?
Usage notes
In everyday speech, used almost exclusively in phrase vernal equinox; in other contexts, spring is used attributively, as in spring colors'' or ''spring flowers, and even is frequently replaced with spring equinox.Antonyms
* autumnalCoordinate terms
* (pertaining to seasons) summer (summery), aestival/estival; winter (wintry), hibernal, brumalDerived terms
* prevernal * vernal-bearded * vernal conjunctivitis * vernal crocus * vernal cyclamen * vernal equinox, vernal equinoctial * vernal gentian * vernal grass * vernality * vernalization * vernalize * vernal keratoconjunctivitis * vernally * vernal orobus * vernal pool * vernal sandwort * vernal season * vernal sedge * vernal-seeming * vernal speedwell * vernal squill * vernal stargrass * vernal starwort * vernal-tincturedReferences
Anagrams
* ----puerile
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The French have been notorious through generations for their puerile affectation of Roman forms, models, and historic precedents.
- From the table he had received the gout; from the alcove a tendency to convulsions; from the grandeeship a pride so vast and puerile that he seldom heard anything that was said to him and talked to the ceiling in a perpetual monologue; from the exile, oceans of boredom, a boredom so persuasive that it was like pain,—he woke up with it and spent the day with it, and it sat by his bed all night watching his sleep.