Immature

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  152 Moby Thesaurus words for "immature":
     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