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Webster 1913 Edition
Immature
1.
Not mature; unripe; not arrived at perfection of full development; crude; unfinished;
“An ill-measured and immature counsel.” as,
immature
fruit; immature
character; immature
plans. Bacon.
2.
Premature; untimely; too early;
as, an immature death
. [R.]
Jer. Taylor.
Webster 1828 Edition
Immature
IMMATU'RE
,Adj.
1.
Not mature or ripe; unripe; that has not arrived to a perfect state; applied to fruit.2.
Not perfect; not brought to a complete state; as immature plans or counsels.3.
Hasty; too early; that comes before the natural time.[In this sense, premature is generally used.]
Definition 2024
immature
immature
English
Adjective
immature (comparative more immature, superlative most immature)
- Not fully formed or developed, unripe, not mature.
- Childish in behavior, not mature.
- You're only young once, but you can be immature the rest of your life.
- The man was immature for throwing a tantrum.
- Wilhelm Stekel - As quoted in The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J. D. Salinger.
- The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
Translations
not fully formed
childish
Noun
immature (plural immatures)
- An immature member of a species.
- 2001, DE Walter, H Proctor, & RA Norton, Acarology: Proceedings of the 10th International Congress, ISBN 064309850X, page 51:
- There are many genera and even families of Brachypylina for which immatures are not yet known, and thus numerous examples of adult convergence and misclassification remain to be revealed: such is the case with Hypozetes.
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Related terms
Latin
Adjective
immātūre
- vocative masculine singular of immātūrus
References
- immature in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “immature”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.