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Definition of Immature
1. Adjective. Characteristic of a lack of maturity. "Immature behavior"
Derivative terms: Immatureness, Immaturity
Antonyms: Mature
2. Adjective. (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth. "Young people"
Category relationships: Animate Thing, Living Thing
Attributes: Age
Also: New, Junior
Similar to: One-year-old, Two-year-old, Three-year-old, Four-year-old, Five-year-old, Adolescent, Teen, Teenage, Teenaged, Infantile, Boyish, Boylike, Schoolboyish, Childlike, Childly, Early, Girlish, Schoolgirlish, Junior, Little, Small, Newborn, Preadolescent, Preteen, Puppyish, Puppylike, Tender, Youngish, Vernal, Young, Youthful
Derivative terms: Immatureness, Young, Youngness
Antonyms: Old
3. Adjective. Not fully developed or mature; not ripe. "Green wood"
Similar to: Unaged
Derivative terms: Greenness, Immatureness, Immaturity
Antonyms: Ripe
4. Adjective. Not yet mature.
Similar to: Adolescent, Embryologic, Embryonal, Embryonic, Inchoative, Larval, Prepubertal, Prepubescent, Prepupal, Pubescent, Pupal, Underdeveloped
Also: Premature, Young
Derivative terms: Immatureness, Immaturity
Antonyms: Mature
5. Adjective. (of birds) not yet having developed feathers. "A small unfledged sparrow on the window sill"
Definition of Immature
1. a. Not mature; unripe; not arrived at perfection of full development; crude; unfinished; as, immature fruit; immature character; immature plans.
Definition of Immature
1. Adjective. Not fully formed or developed, unripe. ¹
2. Adjective. Childish in behavior. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Immature
1. an individual that is not fully grown or developed [n -S]
Medical Definition of Immature
1. 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." 2. Premature; untimely; too early; as, an immature death. Origin: L. Immaturus; pref. Im- not + maturus mature, ripe. See Mature. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Immature
Literary usage of Immature
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1896)
"Whether we may with equal propriety extract immature cataract in younger individuals,
is still a matter of dispute, and it is much to be desired that some ..."
2. Forest Mensuration by Herman Haupt Chapman (1921)
"Growth on Areas of immature Timber. The growth on any large area, whether the
form of forest is even-aged in pure stands, or many-aged in mixed stands ..."
3. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1851)
"Male immature, Mareh 1848, October 1847 ; female Epeira ... Theridion denticulatum
1 Male immature. Under bark of plane- trees, ..."
4. Foods and Their Adulteration: Origin, Manufacture, and Composition of Food by Harvey Washington Wiley (1917)
"Feeding of immature Infants.—The selection of proper food for an infant depends
largely upon its health, age, and general vigor. ..."
5. The Parliamentary Debates: Official Report by Northern Ireland Parliament. House of Commons (1884)
"How is this statement, about its being an immature Bill, to be accepted, ...
If this Bill was immature, why leave behind a list of Bills with this statement ..."
6. Diseases of the eye by George Edmund De Schweinitz (1916)
"'s advice, after the extraction of immature cataract resort to intracapsular
irrigation and wash out tenacious cortical material with a suitably warmed ..."
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