Immature

Definitions: Immature

Immature

Adjective

1. Characteristic of a lack of maturity; "immature behavior".

2. Lacking in development; "immature plans"; "an unformed character".

3. (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth; "young people".

4. Not fully developed or mature; not ripe; "unripe fruit"; "fried green tomatoes"; "green wood".

5. Not yet mature.

6. (of birds) not yet having developed feathers; "a small unfledged sparrow on the window sill".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "immature" was first used: 1548. (references)

Etymology: Immature \Im`ma*ture"\, adjective. [Latin expression immaturus; prefix im- not maturus mature, ripe. See Mature.]. (Websters 1913)

Food & Agriculture

Medicine

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Immature

Newness

Adjective: new, novel, recent, fresh, green; young; evergreen; raw, immature, unsettled, yeasty; virgin; untried, unhandseled, untrodden, untrod, unbeaten; fire-new, span-new.

Nonpreparation

Adjective: unprepared; 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.

Crosswords: Immature

French (sour, unripe).

Dad, I know what you're going to say, and believe me, I totally agree with you! There is no excuse for what I did. It was idiotic, immature, totally reckless, and I'm really sorry. (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette)

The candy is supposed to make you feel all immature and stuff, but I've had a ton and I don't feel any diff-never mind. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Well, I seem to have experience dealing with immature boys. (Out Cold; writing credit: Jon Zack)

The wedding's off, sloppy and immature! (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

Stop dragging things down to your own level, it's immature son. (Help!; writing credit: Marc Behm; Charles Wood)

I was so immature ("Hey Papi"; performing artist: Jay-Z)

You are young only once, but you can be immature all your life. (references; author: unknown)

Immature love: I love you because I need you. Mature love: I need you because I love you. (references; author: unknown)

The Immature Punter (1898)

Immature Encounters 3 (2001)

Never Lie (performing artist: Immature)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Guide to the Breeding Habits and Immature Stages of Diptera Cyclorrhapha (Entomongraph, Vol 8-1987) (reference)

• Adult and immature Tabanidae (Diptera) of California (reference)

• Drug Metabolism in the Immature Human (reference)

• Explorations of Maturity: Studies of Mature and Immature College Men (reference)

• How to Know the Immature Insects (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Immature bald eagle.Credit: USDA.

Western Gull with immature Gulls near Yaquina Head.Credit: BLM.

Western Gull with a first year immature in the Yaquina Head ONA.Credit: Michael Noack.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The lungs of babies with BPD are immature or have not developed normally. (references)

Sometimes, younger adolescents, who may be somewhat immature, seem not quite ready to take the shots. (references)

Most people with Lyme disease become infected during the summer, when immature ticks are most prevalent. (references)

Business

Videoconferencing has not been successful in Italy due to a combination of immature technology and high connection costs. (references)

In this still immature market, customers are mainly multinational companies, and a few local companies in sound financial condition. (references)

The current market for environmental technology is immature, with an inadequate regulatory framework and a lack of transparency, particularly in the enforcement of regulations and the resolution of disputes. (references)

Political Economy

CHINA

Stock and bond markets remained immature and highly sensitive to government policy changes or insider manipulation. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "immature": immature bean ♦ immature wood. Additional references.

Ending with "immature": still-immature.

Albanian

i pazhvilluar (embryonic, inchoate, inchoative, slack-baked, uncultured, underdeveloped, undeveloped), i parakohshëm (early, premature, previous, untimely), i papjekur (childish, half-baked, raw, slack-baked, unbacked, unbaked, uncooked, underripe, unripe, unseasoned), i paarrirë (green, inapproachable, unripe). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فج (sour, unripe), ‏غير ناضج (boyish, embryonic, half-baked, newness, unripe, yeasty), ‏الفج. (various references)

Bulgarian 

незрял (jejune, unripe, vealy, verdant, yeasty, young), недоразвит (aborted, abortive, dwarf, embryonic, inchoate, rudimental, rudimentary, underdeveloped, undersized, unformed), недозрял (green, half-baked, unbaked, unfledged, unripe). (various references)

Chinese 

发育未全. (various references)

Czech

nezralý (green, unripe, unseasoned), dìtinský (babyish, childish, infantile, jejune, puerile). (various references)

Danish

impubes (impuberal), umoden (tart, unripe), udifferentieret. (various references)

Dutch

immatuur, onvolwassen (impuberal), onrijp (unripe), niet volwassen (impuberal). (various references)

Farsi 

نارس (Green, Jejune, Premature, Raw, Unripe), نابهنگام (Inopportune, Malapropos, Precocious, Premature, Unseasonable, Untimely), نابالغ (Underage, Unfledged, Unripe), رشدنیافته , بی تجربه (Green, Gunshy, Halfbaked, Inexpert, Raw, Unskilled(Lful), Verdant). (various references)

Finnish

kypsymätön (green, not ripe, unripe). (various references)

French

vert. (various references)

German

unreif (callow, green, immaturely, juvenile, tart, unfledgedly, unripe, unripely, verdantly). (various references)

Greek 

μη ώριμος, μη έφηβος (impuberal), πρώιμος (early), άκαιροσ (inopportune, malapropos, mistimed, unseasonable), άνηβος (impuberal), άωροσ (green, raw, unripe), άωρος, ανώριμοσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

לא מפותח (undeveloped). (various references)

Hungarian

kiforratlan, éretlen (crude, green, not ripe, puerile, raw, schoolboy logic, tender, underripe, unfledged, unripe, vealy), fejletlen (backward, inchoate, underdeveloped, undeveloped). (various references)

Indonesian

belum masak (underdone). (various references)

Italian

immaturo (callow, crude, half-baked, juvenile, unripe, untimely). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�'臭い (grassy-smelling, inexperienced), �"�煮え (ambiguous, half-cooked, rare, vague), �"�硬 (crude, unpolished), 未熟 (inexperience, inexperienced, raw, unripeness, unskilled), 乳臭い (green, smelling of milk, wet behind the ears), 大人気ない (childish), 大人�'ない (childish). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おとな�'ない (childish), なまにえ (ambiguous, half-cooked, rare, vague), せい�"う (affection, bull's eye, character and conduct, crude, delicate, elaborate, exquisite, hit, mark, point, sexual intercourse, steel manufacture, success, unpolished, western suburb), あおくさい (grassy-smelling, inexperienced), みじゅく (inexperience, inexperienced, raw, unripeness, unskilled), ちちくさい (green, smelling of milk, wet behind the ears). (various references)

Korean 

미성숙한 (mature). (various references)

Manx

neuappee (premature), anappee (abortive), aeg (adolescent, young). (various references)

Norwegian

umoden. (various references)

Pig Latin

immatureay.(various references)

Portuguese

imaturo (childish, half breed, impuberal, tender, unbaked, unformed, unripe, unseasoned, young, youthful). (various references)

Romanian

imatur (crude, in the gristle, unfledged, unripe), prematur (abortive, early, forward, precocious, premature, prematurely, previous, untimely), nematur, necopt (crude, green, half-baked, raw, sodden, sour, unripe), crud (brutal, brutally, callous, callow, crude, cruel, cruelly, cut throat, dire, foully, gory, green, hard, harsh, merciless, raw, ruthless, sanguinary, savage, savagely, sodden, sour, truculent, unfeeling, violent, violently, wolfish, young). (various references)

Russian 

незрелый (crude, embryonic, green, half-baked, puerile, raw, unbaked, unripe, verdant). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

preran (anticipatory, precipitous, premature), nezreo (callow, soporific, unripe, unseasoned, verdant), nepunoletan (underage), nedozreo (underripe, unripe), nedorastao (unfit). (various references)

Spanish

inmaduro (adolescent, callow, impuberal, not ripe, unripe). (various references)

Swedish

omogen (adolescent, green, juvenile, unripe, verdant). (various references)

Thai

ยังไม่สมบูร�"์. (various references)

Turkish

olgunlaşmamış (sucking, unripe), ham (crude, green, raw, rude, uncut, unrefined, unripe), gelişmemiş (backward, embryonic, inchoate, puny, underdeveloped, undeveloped, unimproved). (various references)

Ukranian 

незрілий (callow, childish, embryonic, green, half-baked, nascent, not ripe, puerile, under age, verdant), недорозвинений (aborted, underdeveloped). (various references)

Vietnamese 

non nớt (laddish), chưa chín chắn chưa chín mu�"i. (various references)

Welsh

gorblu (immature feathers). (various references)

crudo, crudum, crudus, grossis, grossos, immaturus, inmatura, inmaturos. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "immature": immaturely, immatures. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Immature" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amature, Amaturen, ammature, ilmatar, imature, imiture, immatue, immatura, immatured, inmature, migmatite, minature, unmatured. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: marmite, muriate.

-2 letters: atrium, imaret, immure, iterum, maimer, mature, maumet, tammie, uremia.

-3 letters: aimer, armet, aurei, imaum, irate, mamie, mater, merit, mimer, miter, mitre, muter, ramet, ramie, remit, retia, tamer, terai, timer, uraei, urate, uteri.

-4 letters: airt, amie, amir, arum, emir, emit, etui, imam, item, maim, mair, mare, mart, mate, maut, meat, meta, mime, mire, mite, mura, mure, mute, rami, rate, ream, rime, rite, tame, tare, team, tear, term, tier, time, tire, tram, trim, true, urea.

-5 letters: aim, air, ait, ami, amu, are, arm, art, ate, ear, eat, eau, emu, era, eta, ire, mae, mar, mat, mem, met, mim, mir, mum, mut, ram, rat, rei, rem, ret, ria, rim, rue, rum, rut, tae, tam, tar, tau, tea, tie, tui, umm, uta.

+1 letter: immatures.

+2 letters: amateurism, immaturely, maumetries, multiarmed, rheumatism, spermatium.

+3 letters: amateurisms, crematorium, magisterium, rheumatisms, suprematism, tautomerism, termitarium.

+4 letters: crematoriums, immaturities, magisteriums, suprematisms, tautomerisms.

+5 letters: armamentarium, circumambient, immunotherapy, intercommunal, multiterminal, mycobacterium, unsymmetrical.

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