immature
/ˌɪməˈtjʊə
/ /ˌɪməˈtjɔː/adjective
1Not fully developed: many of the fish caught are immature...
- The olives, having done pretty well last year, have shed all their immature fruit.
- In that eggplant does not experience a marked ripening stage like tomato and pepper, immature and mature fruit were compared.
- I discovered three of them eating the immature fruits in the tree's spreading crown.
Synonyms
unripe, not ripe, not mature, not matured, unmellowed;
undeveloped, unformed, imperfect, unfinished, incomplete;
crude, raw, green
1.1Having or showing an emotional or intellectual development appropriate to someone younger: his immature sense of humour...
- Then again I did ask for it I called someone an emotionally immature moron.
- Callie knew she was acting a little immature, but she didn't care.
- He is annoying and a bit immature for his age, but that's okay.
Synonyms
childish, babyish, infantile, juvenile, puerile, jejune, callow, green, inexperienced, unsophisticated, unworldly, naive, ingenuous
informal wet behind the ears, born yesterday
Derivatives
immaturely
/ /ˌɪməˈtjɔːli / adverb ...- The youth definitely handled the situation rather immaturely, i.e: turning into a mob, but I think the city should have anticipated this mass influx of drunken youth, and maybe given them something to do.
- Some of us act maturely and some act immaturely.
- After not inconsiderable troubles in my life I was thinking excitedly if immaturely that this was a bit of a milestone - something to celebrate.
Origin
Mid 16th century (in the sense 'premature', referring to death): from Latin immaturus 'untimely, unripe', from in- 'not' + maturus 'ripe' (see mature).
Rhymes
- psychotronics
- psychotropic
- psychovisual
- psycho-vital
- psychovitalism
- psychovitalistic
- psychozoic
- psychrolute
- psychrometer
- psychrometric
- psychrometrically
- psychrometry
- psychrophile
- psychrophilic
- psychrophobia
- psychrophore
- psychrosphere
- psychrospheric
- psychrotolerance
- psychrotolerant
- psychrotroph
- psychrotrophic
- psych someone out
- psychurgy
- psycter