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)

1. Not fully formed or developed, unripe, not mature.
2. 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

• Bulgarian: незрял (bg) (nezrjal), недоразвит (bg) (nedorazvit)
• Catalan: immadur (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不成熟的 (bù chéngshú de)

• Finnish: epäkypsä (fi)
• French: immature (fr), (fruit) vert (fr)
• German: unreif (de)
• Greek: ανώριμος (el) (anórimos)
• Italian: immaturo (it), acerbo (it)
• Japanese: 未熟な (mijuku-na)
• Korean: 미성숙하다 (miseongsuk hada)
• Latin: immātūrus
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• Maori: kānewha, pangore, waitau, kōpīpī, kopī
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: umoden (no)

  Nynorsk: umoden, umogen

• Polish: niedojrzały (pl) m
• Portuguese: imaturo (pt)
• Russian: неспе́лый (ru) (nespélyj), незре́лый (ru) (nezrélyj)
• Slovene: nezrel
• Spanish: inmaturo
• Swedish: omogen (sv)

childish

• Armenian: խակ (hy) (xak)
• Bulgarian: детински (bg) (detinski)
• Catalan: immadur (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 嫩 (zh) (nèn), 不成熟的 (bù chéngshú de), 幼小 (zh) (yòuxiǎo), 幼稚 (zh) (yòuzhì)

• Czech: nedospělý, nezralý
• Danish: umoden, infantil
• Finnish: lapsellinen (fi)
• French: immature (fr)
• German: unreif (de)
• Greek: ανώριμος (el) (anórimos)
• Italian: immaturo (it), infantile (it)
• Japanese: 大人げない (おとなげない, otonagenai), 未熟 (ja) (みじゅく, mijuku)
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• Korean: 유치하다 (ko) (yuchi hada)
• Maori: pangore
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: umoden (no)

  Nynorsk: umoden, umogen

• Portuguese: imaturo (pt), infantil (pt)
• Russian: незре́лый (ru) (nezrélyj)
• Sassarese: zèivu
• Slovene: nezrel
• Spanish: inmaduro (es)
• Swedish: omogen (sv)
• Tamil: குழந்தைத்தனமான (kuḻantaittaṉamāṉa)

Noun

immature (plural immatures)

1. 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

• mature
• immaturity

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French

Adjective

immature (plural immatures)

1. immature, unripe

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German

Pronunciation

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Adjective

immature

1. inflection of immatur:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

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Italian

Adjective

immature f pl

1. feminine plural of immaturo

Anagrams

• ammutire

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) immātūre

1. vocative masculine singular of immātūrus

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.