Synonyms for immature
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Childish — childish in behavior; juvenile
childish, juvenile, child-like, infantile, puerile, babyish, youthful, adolescent, boyish, milky informal, jejune, babish, infantine, kiddish informal
2. Callow
callow, naive, unripe, unsophisticated, innocent, rudimentary, green, undeveloped, unready, raw, inchoate, nascent, unfinished, unripened, inexperienced, ingenuous, rudimental, crude dated
Definitions
- adj. 1
Childish in behavior; juvenile.
The man was immature for throwing a tantrum.
- adj. 2
Not fully formed or developed; not grown.
Related words
- Word family
- immaturely immatureness
Example sentences
- juvenile Recently juvenile delinquency has been on the rise.
- childish Don't be saying that childish shit at the age of 30.
- infantile "Left-Wing" communism is an infantile disorder.
- puerile Is this another one of your puerile jokes?
- naive Tom isn't as naive as a lot of people think he is.
- callow He’s too callow to handle such responsibilities.
By length
- 3 letters
- raw1
- 5 letters
- small1, young1, green1, crude1, naive2, milky2
- 6 letters
- tender2, boyish2, vernal2, callow2, unripe, jejune2, babish2
- 7 letters
- nascent2, puerile2, unready, babyish3, kiddish
- 8 letters
- innocent3, juvenile3, childish2, youthful2, abortive3, inchoate3, unformed2
- 9 letters
- premature3, imperfect3, embryonic4, infantile3, ingenuous4, unripened, unfledged, infantine
- 10 letters
- unfinished3, adolescent4, rudimental
- 11 letters
- rudimentary5, undeveloped4
- 13 letters
- inexperienced5
- 14 letters
- underdeveloped5
- 15 letters
- unsophisticated6
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (naive2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- immature