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Definition of Premature

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

2. Adjective. Too soon or too hasty. "A premature judgment"

3. Adjective. Uncommonly early or before the expected time. "Alcohol brought him to an untimely end"

Definition of Premature

1. a. Mature or ripe before the proper time; as, the premature fruits of a hotbed.

Definition of Premature

1. Adjective. Occurring before a state of readiness or maturity has arrived. ¹

2. Adjective. Taking place earlier than anticipated, prepared for, or desired. ¹

3. Adjective. (informal) Suffering from premature ejaculation. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Premature

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Premature

premanufactures premarital premaritally premarked premarket premarketed premarketing premarkets premarkup premarriage

premarxist premaster prematch prematernal prematernity premature antifascist premature baby premature birth premature births premature infant

premature labor premature labour premature ventricular contraction prematurely prematureness prematurenesses prematures

Literary usage of Premature

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Lancet (1842)
"cing premature labour waa nut less striking, although the degree of distortion waa so great that a child of seven mouths could not be born alive. 1. ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1907)
"34) thinks that the ideal operation is removal of the fibroid alone,whenever this is possible, the disadvantages of total hysterectomy being the premature ..."

3. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1874)
"The superior value of Artificial premature Labour, and Turning over the High ... Further, Dr. Macdonald thought that the operation of inducing premature ..."

4. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1910)
"For a critical study of the influence of chemicals in initiating the premature ripening of fruits, a tree of particularly well adapted seedling dates was ..."

5. The Individual Delinquent: A Text-book of Diagnosis and Prognosis for All by William Healy (1915)
"(G) premature Puberty with General Physical Over-development. § 191. ... (I) premature Puberty with Distinctly Poor Development. § 182. ..."

6. A System of midwifery: Including the Diseases of Pregnancy and the Puerperal by William Leishman (1873)
"ALTHOUGH the usual period of utero-gestation is about ten lunar mouths, the ovum may he expelled at any time by premature uterine Ufan, the result of the ..."

7. Journal by Iron and Steel Institute (1889)
"premature Explosions of Gunpowder.—Mr. J. Grundy* suggests that the ... A second cause of premature explosions might be due to the compression of air in the ..."

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