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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

... particularly anxious to record,—his sense of the spiritual processes which worked behind the grim offence of war, the new birth of religious ideas, which was one of its most wonderful results. He had both witnessed and shared this renascence. It was too indefinite, too immature to be chronicled with scientific accuracy, but it was authentic and indubitable. It was atmospheric, a new air which men breathed, producing new energies and forms of thought. Men were rediscovering ...

— The Glory of the Trenches • Coningsby Dawson

... her, helping her in and out of the automobile, and waiting on her vigilantly. He was awkward, to be sure, and silent, but Mary was secretly sure that he was less resentful toward her than he had been the day before. And she began to understand her husband's interest in the strong, immature, sullen face. ...

— The Enchanted Canyon • Honore Willsie Morrow

... into the ownership of such lands or such houses. Lands and houses were owned and held under a common system which entered into their plan of life. The idea of property was forming in their minds, but it was still in that immature state which pertains to the Middle Status of barbarism. They had no money, but traded by barter of commodities; very little personal property, and scarcely anything of value to Europeans. They were still a breech-cloth people, wearing this rag of barbarism as the unmistakable ...

— Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines • Lewis H. Morgan

... together, so far as love was concerned, and they were as naive and immature in the expression of their love as a pair of children, and this despite the fact that she was crammed with a university education and that his head was full of scientific philosophy and the hard facts ...

— Martin Eden • Jack London

... authority. They exercised at both places this authority without demanding or receiving the appointment to any of the high positions which they might have claimed. They were only the regents of young and immature shoguns, who were the appointees of a court which had at its head an emperor without power or influence, and which was controlled by the creatures of their own designation. This lamentable state ...

— Japan • David Murray

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