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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

IMMATU'RE, a. [L. immaturus; in and maturus.]
1. Not mature or ripe; unripe; that has not arrived to a perfect state; applied to fruit.
2. Not perfect; not brought to a complete state; as immature plans or counsels.
3. Hasty; too early; that comes before the natural time.
[In this sense, premature is generally used.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: characteristic of a lack of maturity; "immature behavior" [ant: mature]
2: (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth; "young people" [syn: young, immature] [ant: old]
3: not fully developed or mature; not ripe; "unripe fruit"; "fried green tomatoes"; "green wood" [syn: green, unripe, unripened, immature] [ant: mature, ripe]
4: not yet mature [ant: mature]
5: (of birds) not yet having developed feathers; "a small unfledged sparrow on the window sill" [syn: unfledged, immature] [ant: fledged, mature]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin immaturus, from in- + maturus mature Date: 1548 1. archaic premature 2. a. lacking complete growth, differentiation, or development <immature fruits> <a sexually immature bird> b. having the potential capacity to attain a definitive form or state ; crude, unfinished <a vigorous but immature school of art> c. exhibiting less than an expected degree of maturity <emotionally immature adults> • immature noun • immaturely adverb • immaturity noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 not mature or fully developed. 2 lacking emotional or intellectual development. 3 unripe. Derivatives: immaturely adv. immaturity n. Etymology: L immaturus (as IN-(1), MATURE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Immature Im`ma*ture", a. [L. immaturus; pref. im- not + maturus mature, ripe. See Mature.] 1. Not mature; unripe; not arrived at perfection of full development; crude; unfinished; as, immature fruit; immature character; immature plans. ``An ill-measured and immature counsel.'' --Bacon. 2. Premature; untimely; too early; as, an immature death. [R.] --Jer. Taylor.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Something or someone that is immature is not yet completely grown or fully developed. She is emotionally immature. ADJ • immaturity In spite of some immaturity in the figure drawing and painting, it showed real imagination. 2. If you describe someone as immature, you are being critical of them because they do not behave in a sensible or responsible way. She's just being childish and immature. ADJ [disapproval] • immaturity ...his immaturity and lack of social skills.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Unripe, crude, green, raw, unformed, unprepared, rudimental, imperfect, unfinished. 2. Premature, hasty, untimely, unseasonable, out of season.

Moby Thesaurus

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