immatureとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• 韻: -ʊə(ɹ)

形容詞

immature (comparative more immature, superlative most immature)

1. Not fully formed or developed, unripe, not mature.
2. Childish in behavior, not mature.

   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.

同意語

• (childish in behavior): infantile, milky; see also Thesaurus:childish

名詞

immature (複数形 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.

関連する語

• mature
• immaturity

Latin

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