immature

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: im=ma=ture

CIDE DICTIONARY

immature, a. [L. immaturus; pref. im- not + maturus mature, ripe. See Mature.].

•  Not mature; unripe; not arrived at perfection of full development; crude; unfinished; as, immature fruit; immature character; immature plans.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]
•  Premature; untimely; too early; as, an immature death.  Jer. Taylor.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

immature, adj.
1 not mature or fully developed.
2 lacking emotional or intellectual development.
3 unripe.

Derivative

immaturely adv. immaturity n.

Etymology

L immaturus (as IN-(1), MATURE)

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

immature

Nonpreparation

N nonpreparation, non-preparation, absence of preparation, want of preparation, inculture, inconcoction, improvidence, immaturity, crudity, rawness, abortion, disqualification, nature, state of nature, virgin soil, unweeded garden, neglect, rough copy, germ, raw material, improvisation, unprepared (prepare), without preparation, incomplete, rudimental, embryonic, abortive, immature, unripe, kachcha, raw, green, crude, coarse, rough cast, rough hewn, in the rough, unhewn, unformed, unfashioned, unwrought, unlabored, unblown, uncooked, unboiled, unconcocted, unpolished, unhatched, unfledged, unnurtured, unlicked, untaught, uneducated, uncultivated, untrained, untutored, undrilled, unexercised, deckle- edged, precocious, premature, undigested, indigested, unmellowed, unseasoned, unleavened, unrehearsed, unscripted, extemporaneous, improvised, spontaneous, ad lib, ad libitem, fallow, unsown, untilled, natural, in a state of nature, undressed, in dishabille, en deshabille, unqualified, disqualified, unfitted, ill-digested, unbegun, unready, unarranged, unorganized, unfurnished, unprovided, unequipped, untrimmed, out of gear, out of order, dismantled, shiftless, improvident, unthrifty, thriftless, thoughtless, unguarded, happy-go- lucky, caught napping, unpremeditated, extempore.

Newness

N newness, novelty, recency, immaturity, youth, gloss of novelty, innovation, renovation, modernism, mushroom, parvenu, latest fashion, new, novel, recent, fresh, green, young, evergreen, raw, immature, unsettled, yeasty, virgin, untried, unhandseled, untrodden, untrod, unbeaten, fire-new, span-new, late, modern, neoteric, hypermodern, nouveau, new-born, nascent, neonatal, new-fashioned, new-fangled, new-fledged, of yesterday, just out, brand-new, up to date, up to the minute, with it, fashionable, in fashion, in, hip, vernal, renovated, sempervirent, sempervirid, fresh as a rose, fresh as a daisy, fresh as paint, spick and span, newly, afresh, anew, lately, just now, only yesterday, the other day, latterly, of late, not long ago, a short time ago, di novello tutto par bello, nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum est prius, una scopa nuova spazza bene.