Premature

Definition: Premature

Premature

Adjective

1. Born after a gestation period of less than the normal time; "a premature infant".

2. Too soon or too hasty; "our condemnation of him was a bit previous"; "a premature judgment".

3. Uncommonly early or before the expected time; "illness led to his premature death"; "alcohol brought him to an untimely end".

Date "premature" was first used: sometime around 1440. (references)

Etymology: Premature \Pre`ma*ture"\, adjective. [Latin expression praematurus; prae before maturus ripe. See Mature.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Premature

Synonyms: previous(p) (adj), untimely (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: full-term (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Earliness	Premature, precipitate, precocious; prevenient, anticipatory; rath.
Nonpreparation	Unhatched, unfledged, unnurtured, unlicked, untaught, uneducated, uncultivated,. untrained, untutored, undrilled, unexercised; deckle-edged; precocious, premature; undigested, indigested; unmellowed, unseasoned, unleavened.
Untimeliness	Unpunctual; (late); too late for; premature; (early); too soon for; wise after the event, monday morning quarterbacking, twenty-twenty hindsight.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	It gives you premature wrinkles. (Fear; writing credit: Christopher Crowe) Talk about premature jubilation. (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay) The only thing we don't have a god for is premature ejaculation - but I hear that that's coming quickly. (History of the World: Part I; writing credit: Mel Brooks) Every time one of these Lancasters fly over, my chickens lay premature eggs. (The Dam Busters; writing credit: Paul Brickhill; Wing Commander Guy Gibson)
Clever	To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman. (references; author: Mark Twain)
Movie/TV Titles	The Premature Burial (1962) Roger Corman Unearths 'The Premature Burial' (2002)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Preemies: The Essential Guide for Parents of Premature Babies (reference) Your Premature Baby: Everything You Need to Know About Childbirth, Treatment, and Parenting (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	The Masque of the Red Death / The Premature Burial (reference) Premature Burial, The (reference) Thriller: Premature Burial (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Premature Birthulation [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Maternal or placental malaria predisposes the newborn infant to a low birthweight, premature delivery, increased infant mortality, and the mother to maternal anemia. Credit: CDC.		A premature infant is given an eye examination to check for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). Credit: Children's Hospital, Buffalo, NY.
	Premature infant with retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) being examined by pediatric ophthalmologist. Credit: Photography Department, Casey Eye Institute, Portland, OR.		An artist's conception of the interior of a normally developing premature infant eye. Credit: Oregon Health Sciences University.
	Premature baby weighing hardly more than a kilogram. / WHO photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		[Premature Infant Carrier to transport babies to The Hopkins Premature Infant Unit]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Feeding a premature baby. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Mother with her premature infant. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	[Nurses with premature baby in an incubator]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Photographed at the time of a fatal gun accident on board, January 1926. The photograph's original caption (which does not completely fit the image) reads: "One Sailor was killed and seven other members of the forward four-inch gun crew received minor injuries as a result of the premature explosion of the gun during battle torpedo practice off Point Loma, California, January 1926. The gun is in the center, foreground.". Credit: NAVY.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
St. Basil	Drunkenness is the ruin of reason. It is premature old age. It is temporary death.
Tacitus	Many have . . . perished, even good men, despising slow and safe success and hurrying on even at the cost of ruin to premature greatness.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Low birthweight and premature birth. (references)
		RDS is a lung disease that occurs in premature infants. (references)
		Premature aging is a characteristic of adults with Down syndrome. (references)
Business		As an example, medical progress now permits tube feeding of premature babies at home so they may be leave the hospital sooner. (references)
		Additionally, one of the companies reported that elements in its processed water caused premature deterioration of some brands of meters. (references)
Economic History	Japan	Corporate governance practices which result in senior management emphasizing internal loyalties over shareholder return can also lead to premature rejection of M&A offers. (references)
	India	The FII's are allowed 100 percent forward cover on investments made after March 31, 1999. Banks can fix penalties on premature withdrawal of deposits. (references)
Worker Rights	Botswana	In August a strike by employees of the Botswana Diamond Valuing Corporation was deemed legal by the court; however, the court ruled the strike premature, ordered the workers back to work, and directed the parties into arbitration before the strike could continue. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	A premature commitment to a high challenge, space-engineering initiative of the complexity of Apollo is inappropriate.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Premature" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Premature" is used about 820 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	820	8,533

Expressions using "premature": Atrial Premature Complexes ♦ breeding box for premature infants ♦ premature aging ♦ premature awakening ♦ premature baby ♦ premature birth ♦ premature blast ♦ premature ejaculation ♦ premature explosion ♦ premature grazing ♦ premature infant ♦ premature labor ♦ premature labour ♦ premature release ♦ premature release probability ♦ premature stiffening ♦ premature ventricular contraction ♦ Ventricular Premature Complexes. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "premature": premature-baby.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "premature"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i parakohshëm (early, immature, previous, untimely), i nxituar (cursory, hasty, headstrong, heady, hot-blooded, hot-headed, hurried, imprudent, precipitant, previous, rash, reckless, slapdash). (various references)

Arabic		‏منجز قبل الأوان, ‏مبكر (coming early, early, going early, morning, precocious), ‏قبل أوانه (precocious), ‏سابق لأوانه (prematurely, previous), ‏خديج (premature baby). (various references)

Bulgarian		ненавременен (ill timed, ill-judged, importune, inexpedient, inopportune, unseasonable, unseemly, untimely), преждевременен (abortive, untimely), прибързан (brash, hasty, headlong, ill-advised, impetuous, light hearted, overbold, precipitate, precipitatious, previous, rash, slapdash, sudden, unthinking, untimely, unwary). (various references)

Chinese		过早, 為時過早 (too soon). (various references)

Czech		předèasný (precocious, untimely), unáhlený (reckless, violent), ukvapený (hasty, impetuous, precipitate, precipitous, rash, sudden, unadvised). (various references)

Danish		præmatur, præmatur. (various references)

Dutch		prematuur (abortive). (various references)

Farsi		پیش رس (Precocious, Unripe), نارس (Green, Immature, Jejune, Raw, Unripe), نابهنگام (Immature, Inopportune, Malapropos, Precocious, Unseasonable, Untimely), قبل ازموقع . (various references)

Finnish		ennenaikainen (overhasty, untimely). (various references)

French		prématuré (previous). (various references)

German		vorzeitig (abortive, abortively, early, prematurely, untimely), frühreif (precocious). (various references)

Greek		πρόωρος (untimely). (various references)

Hebrew		מוק�"ם מ�"י, קו�"ם זמ� ו. (various references)

Hungarian		elhamarkodott (hasty, impetuous, incautious, inconsiderate, precipitant, precipitate), korai (early, forward, precocious, premised, untimely), korán érő (precocious), idő előtti (anticipated, premised, untimely). (various references)

Indonesian		sebelum waktunya, gegabah (heady, rash, reckless). (various references)

Italian		prematuro (abortive, early, previous, untimely). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		時期尚早 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		じきしょうそう (before its time). (various references)

Korean		조숙한. (various references)

Manx		roish yn traa (early), neuappee (immature), lhuanagh, lhuan (cast, imperfect swarm of bees). (various references)

Pig Latin		ematurepray

Portuguese		prematuro (abortive, early, forehanded, forward, immature, untimely). (various references)

Romanian		prematur (abortive, early, forward, immature, precocious, prematurely, previous, untimely), negândit (rash, unthinking, wild), înainte de vreme (untimely). (various references)

Russian		поспешный (hasty, heady, hurried, hurry, rash, rough and ready, slapdash). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		prevremeni (early, rath, rathe), prevremen (pre-term), preran (anticipatory, immature, precipitous), prenagljen (hasty, precipitant, snap, temerarious). (various references)

Spanish		prematuro (early, previous, untimely). (various references)

Swedish		förtida, för tidig. (various references)

Turkish		prematüre (abortive), zamanından önce (early), vakitsiz (ill timed, inconvenient, inopportune, untimely), mevsimsiz (inopportune, out of season, unseasonable), erken doğmuş (abortive), erken (before time, betimes, early, matutinal, soon). (various references)

Ukrainian		ранній (early, first, matutinal, rathe, youthful), поспішний (hasteful, hasty, hurried, ill-judged, precipitate, precipitous, pressing, previous, snap), передчасний (abortive, anticipatory, precocious, previous, untimely). (various references)

Vietnamese		yểu non hấp tấp, vội vã, sớm (early, precocious). (various references)

Welsh		cynamserol (untimely), annhymig. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	praecoquae, praecoquas, praecox, praecox, precox. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "premature": prematurely, prematureness, prematurenesses, prematures. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Premature" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pheatures, prematue, premotor, prompture, remeasure, remotored. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "premature" (pronounced prē'mukhuh"r)
5	-m u kh uh" r	mature.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-m-p-r-r-t-u"
	-1 letter: aperture, tamperer.
	-2 letters: amputee, erratum, maturer, pearter, permute, preterm, rapture, taperer, tempera, tempura, tramper.
	-3 letters: ampere, armure, mature, metepa, parure, perter, prater, prearm, reamer, reaper, remate, repeat, repute, retape, reteam, retear, tamper, tearer, temper, termer, terrae, uprate, uprear, uptear, ureter.
	-4 letters: ameer, apter, arete, armer, armet, eater, erupt, etape, mater, merer, meter, metre, murra.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-m-p-r-r-t-u"
	+1 letter: prematures.
	+2 letters: prematurely, supermarket, temperature.
	+3 letters: preformulate, premenstrual, supermarkets, temperatures.
	+4 letters: imperturbable, preformulated, preformulates, prematureness, prematurities, pretournament.
	+5 letters: distemperature, mercaptopurine, multiparameter, premanufacture, premenstrually, pretournaments.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 72 65 6D 61 74 75 72 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01110010 01100101 01101101 01100001 01110100 01110101 01110010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#114 &#101 &#109 &#97 &#116 &#117 &#114 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0072 0065 006D 0061 0074 0075 0072 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
premature ejaculation	1,874	premature ejackulation	26
premature baby	545	premature rupture of membranes	25
premature and ventricular and contraction	178	premature puberty	22
premature birth	153	premature ejaculation remedy	22
premature	153	premature ejaculation pill	20
baby picture premature	119	baby photo premature	19
stop premature ejaculation	115	premature aging	18
premature labor	104	premature ejeculation	18
premature ejaculation cure	103	premature delivery	17
premature infant	91	viagra premature ejaculation	17
premature ejaculation treatment	90	premature ejaculation exercise	17
premature atrial contraction	67	premature ejaculation medication	16
premature ovarian failure	64	cause of premature ejaculation	16
control premature ejaculation	58	premature thelarche	14
premature menopause	55	premature twin	14
prevent premature ejaculation	46	premature hair loss	13
preventing premature ejaculation	35	premature burial	13
premature ejactulation	31	labor premature sign	13
end header premature script	31	premature sex	13
premature baby clothes	29	treating premature ejaculation	12
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Premature

Definition: Premature

Premature

Adjective

Synonyms: Premature

Synonyms within Context: Premature

Earliness

Nonpreparation

Untimeliness

Crosswords: Premature

Modern Usage: Premature

Screenplays

Clever

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Premature

Books

Theater & Movies

Music

Photo Album: Premature

Familiar Quotations: Premature

St. Basil

Tacitus

Non-Fiction Usage: Premature

Speeches: Premature

Jimmy Carter

Usage Frequency: Premature

Expressions: Premature

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Premature

Modern Translation: Premature

Albanian

Arabic

Bulgarian

Chinese

Czech

Danish

Dutch

Farsi

Finnish

French

German

Greek

Hebrew

Hungarian

Indonesian

Italian

Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

Korean

Manx

Pig Latin

Portuguese

Romanian

Russian

Serbo-Croatian

Spanish

Swedish

Turkish

Ukrainian

Vietnamese

Welsh

Ancestral Language Translations: Premature

Derivations & Misspellings: Premature

Derivations

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Premature"

Anagrams: Premature

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Premature

50 72 65 6D 61 74 75 72 65

.--. .-. . -- .- - ..- .-. .

01010000 01110010 01100101 01101101 01100001 01110100 01110101 01110010 01100101

&#80 &#114 &#101 &#109 &#97 &#116 &#117 &#114 &#101

0050 0072 0065 006D 0061 0074 0075 0072 0065

508471796786878471

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