immature
/ɪməˈtjʊə(ɹ)/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.66 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "And thou also canst best account for the causes of her immature death […]."
- "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."
- "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."
- "While on a walk the next morning I found what looked like a patch of old growth habitat - perhaps somewhere the fires had missed - and to my astonishment saw a female Red-lored Whistler accompanied by an immature."
Etymology
From Middle French immature. Partially displaced unripe, from Old English unrīpe (“unripe, immature”).