| Main Entry: | immature |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | young, inexperienced |
Synonyms: |
adolescent, baby, babyish, callow, childish, crude, green*, half-grown, imperfect, infantile, infantine, jejune, juvenile, kid, kidstuff, premature, puerile, raw, sophomoric, tender*, tenderfoot, underdeveloped, undergrown, undeveloped, unfinished, unfledged, unformed, unripe, unseasonable, unseasoned, unsophisticated, untimely, wet behind ears, youthful |
Antonyms: |
adult, developed, experienced, grown, mature, old |
| Main Entry: | babyish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | acting like an infant |
Synonyms: |
baby, childish, foolish, immature, infantile, juvenile, kid stuff, puerile, silly, sissy, sissyish, spoiled |
Antonyms: |
grown-up, mature |
| Main Entry: | childlike |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | innocent, naive |
Synonyms: |
artless, childish, credulous, guileless, immature, ingenuous, natural, simple, spontaneous, trustful, trusting, unaffected, unfeigned |
| Notes: | childlike refers to a person's temperament, whereas childish refers to a person's behavior |
Antonyms: |
complicated, untrusting |
| Main Entry: | crude |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unrefined, natural |
Synonyms: |
amateurish, callow, coarse, green, harsh, homemade, homespun, immature, impure, in the rough, inexpert, makeshift, outline, prentice, primitive, raw, rough, rough-hewn, rude, rudimentary, rustic, simple, sketchy, thick, undeveloped, unfinished, unformed, ungraded, unmatured, unmilled, unpolished, unprepared, unprocessed, unproficient, unsorted, untaught, untrained, unworked, unwrought |
Antonyms: |
formal, planned, refined, sophisticated, stilted |
| Main Entry: | dependent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | weak, helpless |
Synonyms: |
abased, clinging, counting on, debased, defenseless, humbled, immature, indigent, inferior, lesser, minor, poor, reliant, relying on, secondary, subordinate, tied to apron strings, under, under thumb, unsustaining, vulnerable |
Antonyms: |
independent, mature, strong, unreliant |
| Main Entry: | early |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sooner than expected |
Synonyms: |
advanced, ahead of time, anticipative, anticipatory, before appointed time, beforehand, direct, immature, immediate, matinal, on short notice, on the dot, overearly, oversoon, preceding, precipitant, precocious, preexistent, premature, previous, prompt, pronto, punctual, quick, seasonable, soon, speedy, unanticipated, unexpected, untimely |
Antonyms: |
later |
| Main Entry: | embryonic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rudimentary |
Synonyms: |
beginning, developing, early, elementary, evolving, germinal, immature, incipient, undeveloped |
| Main Entry: | formative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | influential, impressionable |
Synonyms: |
determinative, developmental, immature, impressible, malleable, moldable, pliant, sensitive, shaping, susceptible |
Antonyms: |
destructive, noninfluential |
| Main Entry: | fresh |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | new, just produced |
Synonyms: |
beginning, brand-new, comer, contemporary, crisp, crude, current, different, gleaming, glistening, green*, hot off the press, hot*, immature, just out, late, latest, mint, modern, modernistic, natural, neoteric, newborn, newfangled, novel, now, original, radical, raw, recent, sparkling, state-of-the-art, the latest, this season's, unconventional, unprocessed, unseasoned, untouched, unusual, up-to-date, virginal, what's happening, young, youthful |
Antonyms: |
old, stale, tired, used |
| Main Entry: | green |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | young, new, blooming |
Synonyms: |
bosky, budding, burgeoning, callow, developing, flourishing, foliate, fresh, grassy, growing, half-formed, immature, infant, juvenile, leafy, lush, maturing, pliable, puerile, pullulating, raw, recent, sprouting, supple, tender, undecayed, undried, unfledged, ungrown, unripe, unseasoned, verdant, verduous, youthful |
Antonyms: |
old, withered |