| 单词 | immaturity |
| 释义 | immaturity (once / 14683 pages) n The state of immaturity suggests something that has not ripened or is not fully grown. Applied to humans, it is the state of being less than fully-grown, or at least of acting in a childish or silly manner. With the Latin word immātūritās meaning "unripeness," as in a piece of fruit that is not yet fully developed, we can see the meaning of the modern word immaturity. Nowadays, the word is applied more often to people than to fruit, usually in referring to foolish behavior. Although the word is most often used to refer to adolescent behavior, it can still be applied to a physical state of development. And of course, it can still be applied to underripe produce. WORD FAMILYimmaturity: immaturities+/immature: immaturely, immatureness, immaturity/maturate: maturates, maturating, maturation/maturation: maturational/mature: immature, maturate, matured, maturely, maturement, matureness, maturer, matures, maturest, maturing, maturity/maturity: maturities, post-maturity USAGE EXAMPLESHe detests the president-elect’s belligerence, his immaturity, his kooky cabinet picks, his arrogant rejection of intelligence briefings. Salon(Dec 25, 2016) Immaturity uses every tummy ache, flu, headache, fallen arch, hangnail or breakup as an excuse to slip the knot of accountability. Seattle Times(Dec 12, 2016) His immaturity is hurting him, and he cannot mature because he feels lost, anxious, competitive and angry in his family. Washington Post(Nov 29, 2016) n not having reached maturity Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper immatureness matureness, maturity state of being mature; full development greenness the state of not being ripe callowness, jejuneness, juvenilitylacking and evidencing lack of experience of life prematureness, prematuritythe state of being premature adolescencein the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood childhood, puerilitythe state of a child between infancy and adolescence babyhood, infancythe earliest state of immaturity state the way something is with respect to its main attributes |
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