'Immature' definitions:
Definition of 'immature'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Characteristic of a lack of maturity; "immature behavior" [ant: mature]
adjective
(used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth; "young people" [syn: young, immature] [ant: old]
adjective
Not fully developed or mature; not ripe; "unripe fruit"; "fried green tomatoes"; "green wood" [syn: green, unripe, unripened, immature] [ant: mature, ripe]
adjective
Not yet mature [ant: mature]
adjective
Definition of 'Immature'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Premature; untimely; too early; as, an immature death. [R.] --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'immature'
From: 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