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Immature

Immature Meaning & Definition
Immature Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Immature?

[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"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Immature: 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

Related Terms | Find terms related to Immature: 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

See Also | immature | new | premature | young

Immature In Webster's Dictionary

\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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