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adjective

characteristic of a lack of maturity; “immature behavior”
Antonym
- mature
Similar to
- adolescent, jejune, juvenile, puerile, babyish, childish, infantile
(used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth; “young people”
Synonyms
- young
Antonym
- old
Similar to
- one-year-old, two-year-old, three-year-old, four-year-old, five-year-old, adolescent, teen, teenage, teenaged, infantile, boyish, boylike, schoolboyish, childlike, childly (more)
See also
- immature, junior, new
not fully developed or mature; not ripe; “unripe fruit”; “fried green tomatoes”; “green wood”
Synonyms
- green, unripe, unripened
Antonym
- ripe, mature
Similar to
- unaged
not yet mature
Antonym
- mature
Similar to
- adolescent, embryonic, embryologic, embryonal, inchoative, larval, prepubescent, prepubertal, prepupal, pubescent, pupal, underdeveloped
See also
- premature, young, immature
(of birds) not yet having developed feathers; “a small unfledged sparrow on the window sill”
Synonyms
- unfledged
Antonym
- fledged, mature
Similar to
- unfeathered