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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

... not unfit for Sallet, is made by a Grape of that Name, or the green immature Clusters of most other Grapes, press'd and put into a small ...

— Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets • John Evelyn

... say a few words about myself: I was born in this colony; and am now in the nineteenth year of my age. My education has been neglected—hence you will very likely find that some of these effusions are immature. At present the most of my time is occupied at an attorney's office, but I do not earn enough there to cover expenses; considering that I have to support my mother and three sisters. I want to rise, and if my poems are anywhere near the mark you ...

— The Poems of Henry Kendall • Henry Kendall

... endeavoured to put a wealth of melody into my compositions. One may, of course, dispute the worth of these melodies, their distinction, originality, or charm—it is not for me to judge them—but to deny their existence is either unfair or foolish. They are often on a large scale; and an immature or short-sighted musical vision may not clearly distinguish their form; or, again, they may be accompanied by secondary melodies which, to a limited vision, may veil the form of the principal ones. Or, lastly, shallow ...

— Musicians of To-Day • Romain Rolland

... immature woman, a girl of seventeen, in whose warm nature passion and imagination so largely predominated over intellect, was but too liable to have her reason shaken from its seat by the ordeal through which she was forced ...

— The Missing Bride • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth

... dwell on the arguments for a universal deluge which have been derived from the superficial deposits. They all belong to an immature age of geologic science, and are of no value whatever. Let us pass rather to the consideration of the facts and arguments which militate against the ...

— The Testimony of the Rocks - or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed • Hugh Miller

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