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

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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. Christopher Griffin:

   It was arranged along a spectrum, where the very smallest individuals were immature, and the very largest were mature, but there’s this big grey area in the middle, where there’s lots and lots of variation based on the different ways these things grow.

2. Mickey Rooney:

   I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.

3. Wanda Barfield:

   The successes of modern technology can only go so far. There is still high burden of premature birth, they're not just small babies; their entire organ systems are immature (and) until they are full-term they run risks of complication.

4. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar:

   A lot of the guys that are trying to jump into the NBA are immature and don’t understand the game and it’s having a negative effect on the college game and on the pro game, maybe they should do something about that such as raising the age to 21. Something should be done about the one-and-done phenomenon.

5. Sara Peternell:

   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.