Antonyms 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

   Antonyms:
   ripe, complete, finished, mature, developed

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

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1. • Living Thing

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. immatureadjective

   characteristic of a lack of maturity

   "immature behavior"

   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

   Synonyms:
   young, unripe, unripened, green, unfledged

2. young, immatureadjective

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

   "young people"

   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

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

3. green, unripe, unripened, immatureadjective

   not fully developed or mature; not ripe

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

   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

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

4. immatureadjective

   not yet mature

   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

   Synonyms:
   young, unripe, unripened, green, unfledged

5. unfledged, immatureadjective

   (of birds) not yet having developed feathers

   "a small unfledged sparrow on the window sill"

   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

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

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1. immatureadjective

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

How to use immature in a sentence?

1. Tristar Media/Getty Images:

   I am more immature by the moment – my son is more mature than me, i used to be grown-up, but I’ve lost it.

2. William Stekel:

   The mark of an 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.

3. Dzung Vo:

   People thought, 'Oh teenagers are too immature or they're not capable of learning something like mindfulness,' but my experience has been the complete opposite.

4. Mary McNamara:

   This is really a case about what the appropriate sentence should be, and here is a young guy who is immature, said some stupid things online, and the FBI sent out their best people to try to get a sting operation going.

5. T.S. Eliot:

   Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

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