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adjective

Premature adj.

Mature or ripe before the proper time; as, the premature fruits of a hotbed.

Happening, arriving, existing, or performed before the proper or usual time; adopted too soon; too early; untimely; as, a premature fall of snow; a premature birth; a premature opinion; premature decay.

Arriving or received without due authentication or evidence; as, a premature report.

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Etymology of 'Premature'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Premature" Quotes from Famous Books

... aristocratic traditions. The connecting link between these two individuals and the other boarders was Vautrin—the man of forty, with the dyed whiskers. He was one of that sort of men who are familiarly described as "jolly good fellows." His face, furrowed with premature wrinkles, showed signs of hardness which belied his insinuating address. He was invariably obliging, with a breezy cheerfulness, though at times there was a steely expression in the eyes which inspired his fellow-boarders with a sense ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol. I • Various

... which remain, there are many who might be amused and instructed by books which were not professedly adapted to the classes that have been enumerated. With this view the following volumes[1] have been composed. The title of POPULAR TALES has been chosen, not as a presumptuous and premature claim to popularity, but from the wish that they may be current beyond circles which are sometimes ...

— Tales & Novels, Vol. 2 • Maria Edgeworth

... became more pressing, until at last the Queen wrote announcing that, actuated by esteem and affection for him who had so long been kept in banishment, she herself desired the meeting. But it must be secret. An open audience would still be premature; he had numerous enemies at Court, who, thus forewarned, might so exert themselves against him as yet to ...

— The Historical Nights' Entertainment • Rafael Sabatini

... year round. Thus circumstanced, the commissioners observed, 'It is impossible for the able-bodied in general to provide against sickness or the temporary absence of employment, or against old age, or the destitution of their widows and children in the contingent event of their own premature decease. A great portion of them are, it is said, insufficiently provided with the commonest necessaries of life. Their habitations are wretched hovels, several of a family sleep together on straw, or upon the bare ground, ...

— The Land-War In Ireland (1870) - A History For The Times • James Godkin

... to love," he assured himself, and at the same time he thought, "But shall I ever fall in love without? I am nearly thirty! I have never met anyone better than Vera and I never shall. . . . Oh, this premature old age! Old age ...

— The Chorus Girl and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov

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