IMMATURE - 12 definitions found
immature adj 1: characteristic of a lack of maturity; "immature behavior" [ant: mature] 2: (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth; "young people" [syn: young, immature] [ant: old] 3: not fully developed or mature; not ripe; "unripe fruit"; "fried green tomatoes"; "green wood" [syn: green, unripe, unripened, immature] [ant: mature, ripe] 4: not yet mature [ant: mature] 5: (of birds) not yet having developed feathers; "a small unfledged sparrow on the window sill" [syn: unfledged, immature] [ant: fledged, mature] immature - pocom immature - ragnol Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) immature adjective Etymology: Latin immaturus, from in- + maturus mature Date: 1548 1. archaic premature 2. a. lacking complete growth, differentiation, or development <immature fruits> <a sexually immature bird> b. having the potential capacity to attain a definitive form or state ; crude, unfinished <a vigorous but immature school of art> c. exhibiting less than an expected degree of maturity <emotionally immature adults> • immature noun • immaturely adverb • immaturity noun Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary immature 1. Something or someone that is immature is not yet completely grown or fully developed. She is emotionally immature. ADJ • immaturity In spite of some immaturity in the figure drawing and painting, it showed real imagination. N-UNCOUNT 2. If you describe someone as immature, you are being critical of them because they do not behave in a sensible or responsible way. She's just being childish and immature. ADJ [disapproval] • immaturity ...his immaturity and lack of social skills. N-UNCOUNT English Explanatory Dictionary immature ˌɪməˈtjuə adj. 1 not mature or fully developed. 2 lacking emotional or intellectual development. 3 unripe. øøimmaturely adv. immaturity n. [L immaturus (as IN-(1), MATURE)] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 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. 2. Premature; untimely; too early; as, an immature death. [R.] --Jer. Taylor. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms immature n. 1. Unripe, crude, green, raw, unformed, unprepared, rudimental, imperfect, unfinished. 2. Premature, hasty, untimely, unseasonable, out of season. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) immature ˌɪməˈtjuə adj. 1 premature, undeveloped, unripe, rudimentary, half-grown, unformed, unfledged, fledgling, unfinished, young, new, fresh, incomplete: The immature growth in the spring is not hardy enough to survive a frost. 2 green, callow, unsophisticated, naìve, jejune, inexperienced, babyish, childish, childlike, puerile, juvenile, raw, Colloq wet behind the ears: She is a bit immature to assume so many responsibilities. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 152 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 |
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