immatureとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɪməˈtjʊə(ɹ)/, /ɪməˈtʃʊə(ɹ)/, /ɪməˈtʃə(ɹ)/
  • 韻: -ʊə(ɹ)

形容詞

immature (comparative immaturer, superlative immaturest)

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 13631815:

     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.]

   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.

   • 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.