Immature \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.
[1913 Webster]
2. Premature; untimely; too early; as, an immature death.
[R.] --Jer. Taylor.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
immature
adj 1: characteristic of a lack of maturity; "immature behavior"
[ant: mature]
2: lacking in development; "immature plans"; "an unformed
character" [syn: unformed]
3: (used of living things especially persons) in an early
period of life or development or growth; "young people"
[syn: young] [ant: old]
4: not fully developed or mature; not ripe; "unripe fruit";
"fried green tomatoes"; "green wood" [syn: green, unripe,
unripened] [ant: ripe]
5: not yet mature [ant: mature]
6: (of birds) not yet having developed feathers; "a small
unfledged sparrow on the window sill" [syn: unfledged]
[ant: fledged]
WordNet (r) 2.0
152 Moby Thesaurus words for "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,
ever-new, evergreen, 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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
green, unfledged, unformed, unripe, unripened, young
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