Synonyms for immature
ˈɪm əˈtʃʊər, -ˈtʊər, -ˈtyʊər, -ˈtʃɜrim·ma·ture

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1. immature

   Boyish, childish, and girlish are used in a good sense of those to whom they properly belong, but in a bad sense of those from whom more maturity is to be expected; childish eagerness or glee is pleasing in a child, but unbecoming in a man; puerile in modern use is distinctly contemptuous. Juvenile and youthful are commonly used in a favorable and kindly sense in their application to those still young; youthful in the sense of having the characteristics of youth, hence fresh, vigorous, light-hearted, buoyant, may have a favorable import as applied to any age, as when we say the old man still retains his youthful ardor, vigor, or hopefulness; juvenile in such use would belittle the statement. Young is distinctively applied to those in the early stage of life or not arrived at maturity. Compare NEW.

   Compare synonyms for OLD.

   Synonyms:
   adolescent, boyish, callow, childish, childlike, girlish, juvenile, puerile, young, youthful

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1. immature

   Synonyms:
   unripe, green, crude, imperfect, unfinished, undeveloped

   Antonyms:
   ripe, complete, finished, mature, developed

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. immatureadjective

   characteristic of a lack of maturity

   "immature behavior"

   Synonyms:
   young, unripe, unripened, green, unfledged

   Antonyms:
   overblown, full-grown, grown, mature, matured, efflorescent, meridian, prime, abloom, big, nubile, marriageable, autumnal, ripe, fruiting, adult, headed, mellow, fully grown, full-blown, mellowed, grownup

2. young, immatureadjective

   (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth

   "young people"

   Synonyms:
   untried, unripened, green, vernal, youthful, unseasoned, new, unripe, untested, unfledged, young

   Antonyms:
   autumnal, prime, adult, fruiting, big, mature, grown, marriageable, full-blown, mellow, grownup, nubile, full-grown, matured, meridian, headed, overblown, mellowed, abloom, ripe, efflorescent, fully grown

3. green, unripe, unripened, immatureadjective

   not fully developed or mature; not ripe

   "unripe fruit"; "fried green tomatoes"; "green wood"

   Synonyms:
   light-green, green, unfledged, young, gullible, unripened, greenish, unripe, dark-green, fleeceable

   Antonyms:
   full-grown, grown, fully grown, autumnal, prime, marriageable, fruiting, mellow, big, abloom, adult, matured, mature, meridian, full-blown, nubile, overblown, efflorescent, ripe, mellowed, headed, grownup

4. immatureadjective

   not yet mature

   Synonyms:
   young, unripe, unripened, green, unfledged

   Antonyms:
   overblown, ripe, grown, matured, grownup, full-blown, fruiting, mellowed, marriageable, autumnal, prime, nubile, abloom, mature, headed, full-grown, meridian, mellow, fully grown, adult, efflorescent, big

5. unfledged, immatureadjective

   (of birds) not yet having developed feathers

   "a small unfledged sparrow on the window sill"

   Synonyms:
   green, unfledged, fledgeless, callow, unvaned, unripened, young, unripe, fledgling

   Antonyms:
   mellow, abloom, nubile, ripe, big, full-grown, headed, full-blown, matured, mellowed, fruiting, prime, grownup, overblown, mature, fully grown, grown, adult, marriageable, autumnal, efflorescent, meridian

Matched Categories

1. • Living Thing

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1. immatureadjective

   Synonyms:
   unripe, crude, green, raw, unformed, unprepared, rudimental, imperfect, unfinished

2. immatureadjective

   Synonyms:
   premature, untimely, unseasonable, out of season

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1. immatureadjective

   Synonyms:
   undeveloped, embryonic, crude, unripe, premature, untimely

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1. List of paraphrases for "immature":

   premature, juvenile

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1. Sara Peternell:

   We’re learning that grains may have somewhat of a detrimental effect, babies have very immature digestive systems, so to speak, so when we introduce something that’s more of a refined grain, that takes a lot more energy from the digestive system to try to break it down and also to extract the nutrients.

2. Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Srange Land:

   Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.

3. Brendan Hunt:

   I had a lot of time to think in prison. I've been in prison for three months. A lot of that in solitary confinement, and I had to come to grips with the fact that a lot of my language was very inappropriate, it was irresponsible, careless and immature in a lot of ways.

4. Lionel Trilling:

   Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

5. J. D. Salinger:

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