Definition of Immature

Immature

Not mature; unripe; not arrived at perfection of full development; crude; unfinished; as, immature fruit; immature character; immature plans.

Premature; untimely; too early; as, an immature death.

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Immature Quotations

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.
Woody Allen

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
T. S. Eliot

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
Erich Fromm

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.
Harry S. Truman

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
Robert A. Heinlein

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
Dave Barry

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
Quentin Crisp

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
Vladimir Nabokov

My rookie year, I was very immature.
Dennis Rodman

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
Tom Robbins

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
Muhammad Iqbal

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
Germaine Greer

I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.
Mickey Rourke

We're kind of like the smoking section in high school. We're immature, keep to ourselves.
Matt Stone

I was immature the way I handled the business. I saw myself as a tribune of the people.
Ron Silver

I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She's selfish, she's childish, she's immature and because I'm doing a three-book arc I really played that up in the first book. I wanted the reader to be annoyed with her at times.
Amber Benson

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
Lionel Trilling

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.
George P. Baker

The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.
Lionel Trilling

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Immature Translations

immature in German is unreif
immature in Latin is crudus
immature in Norwegian is umoden
immature in Spanish is inmaduro
immature in Swedish is omogen

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