Immature

/ɪməˈtjʊə(ɹ)/

Synonyms for "immature" (225 found)

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Closest matches (45)

Adjective(9 words)

green unripe altricial babiest callower callowestchildish apingcoltish fledgeless

a novice ata stranger toabortive adolescent adulterated amateur amateurish arrestedat half cockbabish babyish blemished boyish budding callow childish childlike crude dabbling damaged

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defective deficient dewy dilettante dilettantish embryonic erroneous ever-new evergreen failing fallible faulty firsthand fledglingfound wanting

Adjective(1 words)

emergent

Strong matches (68)

fresh greengreen as grassgrowing gulliblehalf assedhalf bakedhalf cockedhalf-assed half-baked half-cocked half-grown hypoplastic ignorant ill-digested impaired imperfect imprecise impubic impure

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in arrearin arrearsin defaultin short supplyinaccurate inadequate incomplete inexact inexperienced infant infantile infantine ingenuous innocent intact jejune juicy juvenile lacking latent mad maiden maidenly makeshift mediocre minor missing mixed

Noun(8 words)

green plant leavesjuvenile magazinesjuvenile mammaljuvenile populationkiddyless developedless matureless mature learners

Adjective(10 words)

ill consideredincompletejuvenile birdjuvenile fishjuvenile leafjuvenile organismjuvenile plantjuvenile stagejuvenile treelarval

Adverb(2 words)

less mature peopleless mature persons

Related words (112)

naive needing neoteric nestling newnew tonew-fledgednot perfectoff original part partial patchy precocious premature pristine puerile raw ripening rudimentary

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sappy scant scanty sciolistic scrappy sempervirent shallow short shy sketchy small smattering sophomoric superficial tender unaccustomedunaccustomed tounacquainted withunadult unbeaten unconversantunconversant withunderage underdeveloped underripe undeveloped undigested uneven unexperiencedunfamiliar withunfinished unfledged unformed ungrown unhandled uninitiateduninitiated inunlicked unmatured unmellowed unperfected unpracticedunpracticed inunripe unseasoned unskilledunskilled inunsophisticated unsound unthorough untouched untried untrodden unusedunused tounversedunversed inunwise vernal virgin virginal wanting young youthful

Adjective(22 words)

naive nonaged premature rawer regressive unaged underripe undevelopedundeveloped societyundifferentiated workunfledged unformed unripened unriper unripest unsophisticated youngyoung human beingyoung organismyoung plant leaves

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young treeyounger plant

Noun(6 words)

preadultseedling displayunripe seedunspecialized cellyoung plant stemsyoung plant tissue

Related word relations

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7 relation types

More general

7 entries

cognition condition developmentgrowth stageripeness state thinking

More specific

8 entries

developmental delayfunctional immaturitygreen fruitillogical conclusionnaive reasoningstructural immaturityunripe fruitunsophisticated view

Collocations

6 entries

immature behaviorimmature developmentimmature fruitimmature plantimmature responseimmature stage

Inflections

2 entries

more immaturemost immature

Derivations

3 entries

immaturely immaturities immaturity

Antonyms

1 entries

mature

similar

52 entries

adolescent babyish boyish boylike childish childlike childly early embryologic embryonal embryonicfive-year-oldfour-year-oldgirlish inceptive inchoative

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Sample sentences

16 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

My brother is an immature boy.

Source: tatoeba (602057)

He was so immature, he couldn't resist the temptation.

Source: tatoeba (1850979)

She is young and immature.

Source: tatoeba (1941192)

He is young and immature.

Source: tatoeba (1941194)

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