immature
English
Etymology
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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French immature
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
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
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childish
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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, 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.
Related terms
French
Adjective
immature (plural immatures)
German
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Adjective
immature
- inflection of immatur:
Italian
Adjective
immature f pl
Anagrams
Latin
Adjective
(deprecated template usage) immātūre
References
- “immature”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- immature in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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