immature

From Middle French immature

• Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)

immature (comparative more immature, superlative most immature)

1. Not fully formed or developed, unripe, not mature.
2. Childish in behavior, not mature.

   You're only young once, but you can be immature the rest of your life.

   The man was immature for throwing a tantrum.

   • Wilhelm Stekel - As quoted in The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J. D. Salinger.

     The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

immature (plural immatures)

1. An immature member of a species.
   • 2001, DE Walter, ‎H Proctor, & ‎RA Norton, Acarology: Proceedings of the 10th International Congress, →ISBN, page 51:

     There are many genera and even families of Brachypylina for which immatures are not yet known, and thus numerous examples of adult convergence and misclassification remain to be revealed: such is the case with Hypozetes.

• mature
• immaturity

immature (plural immatures)

1. immature, unripe

immature

1. inflected form of immatur

immature f pl

1. feminine plural of immaturo

• ammutire

immātūre

1. vocative masculine singular of immātūrus

• immature in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• immature in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette