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- pronunciation:
- I
m
chur
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition 1: |
not yet fully developed or mature; juvenile.
The disease is more common in immature animals than in adults.The immature apples are hard and sour.- synonyms:
- callow, childish, green, juvenile, tender, undeveloped, unripe, young
- antonyms:
- adult, mature, ripe
- similar words:
- abortive, adolescent, embryonic, incomplete, infantile, puerile, raw, rudimentary, scrub
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| definition 2: |
lacking the wisdom, discretion, or intellectual development expected of an adult; childish.
Breaking the window was an accident, but it was immature of him not to apologize for what he'd done.- synonyms:
- childish, infantile, juvenile, puerile
- antonyms:
- mature
- similar words:
- adolescent, callow, green, jejune, naive, unsophisticated, young, youthful
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| related words: |
baby, childish, dependent, little, primitive |
adverb + (adj.)immature
bit, emotionally, extremely, little, occasionally, relatively, sexually, socially, too
(adj.)immature
+ adverb
poorly
(adj.)immature
+ noun
adolescent,
adult,
animal,
bean,
behavior,
bird,
bladder,
bone,
brain,
buck,
carrot,
cell,
compost,
egg,
failure,
female,
fiber,
fish,
flower,
fly,
form,
fruit,
insect,
judgment,
leaf,
lung,
male,
muscle,
organ,
ovary,
pattern,
pod,
protein,
reaction,
self,
stage,
swordfish,
teen,
tick,
vegetation,
version,
whale,
youth
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| derivations: |
immaturely (adv.), immaturity (n.) |
The word immature
contains the following part:
im-2
Latin
prefix
that means not, without
  More about this word part:
The prefix im-2 occurs in Latin loanwords. It is an assimilated form of in-2 used before roots beginning with the letter "m," "p," and "b." See in-2.
Example words:
imbalance, immaculate, immaterial, immature, immediate, immiscible, immobile, immodest, immortal, immovable, immune, immutable, impalpable, impartial, impassable, impatient, impeccable, impecunious, impenitent, imperfect, impermeable, impermissible, impersonal, imperturbable, impervious, implacable, implausible, impolite, imponderable, impossible, impotent, impregnable, improper, impropriety, improvise, imprudent, impudent, impunity, impure
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