Definition of Premature

Premature

Mature or ripe before the proper time; as, the premature fruits of a hotbed.

Happening, arriving, existing, or performed before the proper or usual time; adopted too soon; too early; untimely; as, a premature fall of snow; a premature birth; a premature opinion; premature decay.

Arriving or received without due authentication or evidence; as, a premature report.

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Premature Quotations

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Isaac Asimov

The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
Peter Ustinov

I was born nine months premature.
Jay London

When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets.
Francis Crick

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
Jean Rostand

As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects.
Solomon Ortiz

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
Quintilian

I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed.
Theodore C. Sorensen

He was born early. But he was born within a safe range of premature.
Paul Reiser

Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.
Isabel Allende

Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.
Frank Dobson

There is no question that al-Qaida operatives are currently active in Iraq. A premature exit before the threat they represent has been dealt with would endanger America and the prospects of eventual peace in the Middle East.
Robert Foster Bennett

Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do.
Paul Graham

Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
Aaron Burr

Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.
George Boole

I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement.
Mary Crosby

Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence.
George Alec Effinger

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Premature Translations

premature in Italian is parto prematuro, prematuro
premature in Latin is praecox
premature in Spanish is prematuro

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