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Immature

adjective

Characteristic of a lack of maturity.

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

Not fully developed or mature; not ripe. Synonyms: green, unripe, unripened. "Fried green tomatoes" , "Green wood"

Not yet mature.

(of birds) not yet having developed feathers. Synonym: unfledged.

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"Immature" Quotes from Famous Books

... been her undeclared lover since his middle teens. Somewhere in the same immature interval, just after her first return from Europe, she had imagined herself passionately in love with him. But she had a large fortune left her by her maternal grandfather, besides a hundred thousand her father had died too soon to spend, ...

— Senator North • Gertrude Atherton

... educative process are an immature, undeveloped being; and certain social aims, meanings, values incarnate in the matured experience of the adult. The educative process is the due interaction of these forces. Such a conception of each in relation to the other as facilitates completest and freest interaction is ...

— The Child and the Curriculum • John Dewey

... without waste or damage. The pickers, all receiving the same daily wages, have a pocket interest in saving the cotton, therefore clean, careful picking, with a view of preserving a high grade of fibre, soon becomes the rule. This is an important matter, as green, immature fibre is worthless for the purpose of making a strong, durable thread or fabric; therefore pickers must be sufficiently intelligent, to understand why they should select ...

— Solaris Farm - A Story of the Twentieth Century • Milan C. Edson

... it out long ago. It was their coming in that small, immature shape that puzzled us; we were not used to it. There are some girls now. Abel is a good boy, but if Cain had stayed a bear it would have improved him. After all these years, I see that I was mistaken ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... orange blossoms are led to the altar at an age when, fifty years ago, they would be resigned old maids in cap and mittens. If a girl is foolish enough to marry immediately she is out of the schoolroom, she must be prepared to take the enormous risk which the choice of a husband at such an immature age ...

— Modern marriage and how to bear it • Maud Churton Braby

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