immature

English

Adjective

immature (comparative more immature, superlative most immature)

1. Not fully formed or developed, unripe.
2. Silly or childish in behavior.
   • 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

• Finnish: epäkypsä (fi)
• French: immature (fr), (fruit) vert (fr)
• Italian: immaturo (it), acerbo (it)
• Maori: kānewha (mi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: umoden (nb)

  Nynorsk: umoden (nn), umogen (nn)

• Polish: niedojrzały (pl) m
• Russian: неспелый (ru) (nespélyj), незрелый (ru) (nezrélyj)
• Slovene: nezrel
• Swedish: omogen (sv)

childish

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 嫩 (cmn) (nèn), 未成熟 (cmn) (wèichéngshú), 幼小 (cmn) (yòuxiǎo)

• Czech: nedospělý (cs), nezralý (cs)
• Danish: umoden (da), infantil (da)
• Finnish: lapsellinen (fi)
• French: immature (fr)
• German: unreif (de)
• Italian: immaturo (it), infantile (it)
• Japanese: 大人げない (ja) (おとなげない, otonagenai), 未熟 (ja) (みじゅく, mijuku)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: umoden (nb)

  Nynorsk: umoden (nn), umogen (nn)

• Russian: незрелый (ru) (nezrélyj)
• Sassarese Sardinian: zèivu
• Slovene: nezrel
• Spanish: inmaduro (es)
• Swedish: omogen (sv)
• Tamil: குழந்தைத்தனமான (ta)

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Italian

Adjective

immature f pl

1. feminine plural of immaturo

Anagrams

• ammutire

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Latin

Adjective

immātūre

1. vocative masculine singular of immātūrus