Meaning | not yet mature. |
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Attribute of | age | How long something has existed |
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maturity, matureness | state of being mature / mature |
Narrower | adolescent | In the state of development between puberty and maturity |
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embryonic, embryologic, embryonal | Of an organism prior to birth or hatching |
inchoative, inceptive | Beginning to develop |
larval | Immature of its kind |
prepubescent, prepubertal | (especially of human beings) at the age immediately before puberty |
prepupal | Of an inactive stage / stage in the development of some insects, between the larval and the pupal stages |
pubescent | (of animals especially human beings) having arrived at the onset of puberty (the age at which sex glands become functional) but not yet fully mature |
pupal | Of the insects in the chrysalis (cocoon) or post larval stage / stage |
underdeveloped | not yet fully developed |
See also | premature | born after a gestation period of less than the normal time |
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young, immature | (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth |
Opposite | mature | Having reached full natural growth or development |
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Spanish | inmaduro |
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Catalan | immadur |
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Nouns | immaturity, immatureness | not having reached maturity |
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