What does immature mean?
Word: Immature
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Immature means not yet fully grown or developed. Said of a person, it means acting younger than their age.
Synonyms: undeveloped
Antonyms: mature
How do you spell immature?
Syllables: im - ma - ture
Tricky part: The last part sounds like chure or tyoor, so students often write immachure or immatuer. Listening alone will not help here; the end has to be learnt by eye.
Watch out for: immachure, immatuer
Memory tip: Picture a baby turtle: Too Unripe to Run Easily. The capital letters give you the close of the word.
Immature in a sentence
Example 1: A tadpole is an immature frog, so it still has a tail.
Example 2: The immature mangoes on our tree will not be ready to eat until May.
Example 3: It was immature of me to sulk after the cricket match, so I said sorry to Kabir.
Fun Fact
Latin immaturus meant unripe or not yet ready. Biologists still call a young animal immature, and for them the word is no criticism of how it behaves.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Makeup
Choose the prefix that completes the word:
____mature
a) il
b) im
c) un
d) in
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b) im. This prefix means not, and it takes this form before the letter m, as in immobile.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
uemtmira
a) immature
b) immersed
c) immortal
d) imitator
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a) immature. Neither o nor s appears in the jumble, which rules out the other three.
Word Connection
Choose the antonym of the word:
immature
a) youthful
b) childish
c) tender
d) grown-up
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d) grown-up. A grown-up has finished growing, which is just what immature does not describe.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) bizzare
b) dilema
c) mischevous
d) immature
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d) immature. Dilemma wants a double m, mischievous an i before the e, and bizarre only one z.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. A farmer picks a guava that is still immature. What will he most likely notice?
a) It feels hard and tastes sour
b) It is sweet and very juicy
c) It has gone soft and brown
d) It has dried out completely
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a) It feels hard and tastes sour
2. Which of these animals is immature?
a) a bull at the village fair
b) a cow with four calves
c) a full-grown working ox
d) a calf learning to stand
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d) a calf learning to stand
