prematureadjective
uk/ˈprem.ə.tʃər//prem.əˈtʃʊər/us/ˌpriː.məˈtʊr/happening or done too soon, especially before the natural or suitable time:
premature birth/death
a premature baby
Their criticisms seem premature considering that the results aren't yet known.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Early
- be up with the lark idiom
- belated
- better
- better late than never idiom
- early
- early bird
- first
- good
- ill-timed
- in good time idiom
- lark
- mistime
- postdate
- prepone
- pumpkin
- schedule
- short
- the early bird catches the worm idiom
- turn into a pumpkin idiom
prematurely
adverb uk/ˈprem.ə.tʃə.li//prem.əˈtʃʊə.li/us/ˌpriː.məˈtʊr.li/
Their baby was born prematurely and weighed only one kilogram.
His stressful job made him go prematurely grey (= made his hair turn grey at a young age).