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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Immature \Im'ma*ture"\, adjective [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.
2. Premature; untimely; too early; as, an immature death. [R.] --Jer. Taylor.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
immature
adjective
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
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