immatureとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ɪməˈtjʊə(ɹ)/, /ɪməˈt͡ʃʊə(ɹ)/, /ɪməˈt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
• 韻: -ʊə(ɹ)

形容詞

immature (comparative more immature, superlative most immature)

1. (now rare) Occurring before the proper time; untimely, premature (especially of death). [from 16th c.]
   • 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CDLXXXI”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson;  […], →OCLC:

     And thou also canst best account for the causes of her immature death […] .

2. Not fully formed or developed; not grown. [from 17th c.]
3. Childish in behavior; juvenile. [from 20th c.]

   Synonyms: infantile, milky; see also Thesaurus:childish

   You're only young once, but you can be immature the rest of your life.

   The man was immature for throwing a tantrum.

   • Wilhelm Stekel - As quoted in The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J. D. Salinger.

     The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

派生語

名詞

immature (plural immatures)

1. An immature member of a species.
   • 2001, DE Walter, H Proctor, RA Norton, Acarology: Proceedings of the 10th International Congress, →ISBN, page 51:

     There are many genera and even families of Brachypylina for which immatures are not yet known, and thus numerous examples of adult convergence and misclassification remain to be revealed: such is the case with Hypozetes.

   • 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 240:

     While on a walk the next morning I found what looked like a patch of old growth habitat - perhaps somewhere the fires had missed - and to my astonishment saw a female Red-lored Whistler accompanied by an immature.

関連する語

• mature
• immaturity

形容詞

immātūre

1. vocative masculine singular of immātūrus

参照

• “immature”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “immature”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.