Meaning of IMMATURE
| Pronunciation: | | 'imu'tûr
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- [adj] lacking in development; "immature plans"; "an unformed character"
- [adj] (of birds) not yet having developed feathers; "a small unfledged sparrow on the window sill"
- [adj] not yet mature
- [adj] characteristic of a lack of maturity; "immature behavior"
- [adj] not fully developed or mature; not ripe; "unripe fruit"; "fried green tomatoes"; "green wood"
- [adj] (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth; "young people"
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| | Synonyms: | | adolescent, baby(a), babyish, boyish, boylike, callow, childish, childlike, childly, early, embryonal, embryonic, formative, girlish, green, inchoative, inexperienced, infant(a), infantile, jejune, junior, juvenile, larval, little, naive, newborn, preadolescent, prepubertal, prepubescent, prepupal, preteen, pubescent, puerile, pupal, puppyish, puppylike, schoolboyish, schoolgirlish, small, teen, teenage, teenaged, tender, unaged, underdeveloped, undeveloped, unfeathered, unfledged, unformed, unripe, unripened, unsophisticated, vernal, vulnerable, youngish, youthful |
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| | Antonyms: | | fledged, mature, old, ripe | | |
| | See Also: | | immature, new, premature, young | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Im`ma*ture"\, a. [L. immaturus; pref. im- not +
maturus mature, ripe. See {Mature}.]
1. Not mature; unripe; not arrived at perfection of full
development; crude; unfinished; as, immature fruit;
immature character; immature plans. ``An ill-measured and
immature counsel.'' --Bacon.
2. Premature; untimely; too early; as, an immature death.
[R.] --Jer. Taylor.
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| | Related Terms: | | a novice at, a stranger to, adolescent, adulterated, amateur, amateurish, arrested, at half cock, babish, babyish, blemished, budding, callow, childish, childlike, dabbling, damaged, defective, deficient, dewy, dilettante, dilettantish, embryonic, erroneous, evergreen, ever-new, failing, fallible, faulty, firsthand, fledgling, found wanting, fresh, green, green as grass, growing, half-assed, half-baked, half-cocked, half-grown, hypoplastic, ignorant, ill-digested, impaired, imperfect, imprecise, impubic, impure, in arrear, in arrears, in default, in short supply, inaccurate, inadequate, incomplete, inexact, inexperienced, infant, infantile, infantine, ingenuous, innocent, intact, jejune, juicy, juvenile, lacking, maiden, maidenly, makeshift, mediocre, minor, missing, mixed, naive, needing, neoteric, nestling, new, new to, new-fledged, not perfect, off, original, part, partial, patchy, precocious, premature, pristine, puerile, raw, ripening, rudimentary, sappy, scant, scanty, sciolistic, scrappy, sempervirent, shallow, short, shy, sketchy, smattering, sophomoric, superficial, tender, unaccustomed to, unacquainted with, unadult, unbeaten, unconversant, unconversant with, underage, underdeveloped, underripe, undeveloped, uneven, unexperienced, unfamiliar with, unfinished, unfledged, unformed, ungrown, unhandled, uninitiated in, unlicked, unmatured, unmellowed, unperfected, unpracticed, unpracticed in, unripe, unseasoned, unskilled in, unsophisticated, unsound, unthorough, untouched, untried, untrodden, unused, unused to, unversed, unversed in, vernal, virgin, virginal, wanting, young, youthful |
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