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immature
English
Etymology
From Middle French immature. Partially displaced unripe, from Old English unr?pe (“unripe, immature”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m??tj??(?)/, /?m??t???(?)/, /?m??t??(?)/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Adjective
immature (comparative more immature, superlative most immature)
- (now rare) Occurring before the proper time; untimely, premature (especially of death). [from 16th c.]
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 481:
- And thou also canst best account for the causes of her immature death […] .
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 481:
- Not fully formed or developed; not grown. [from 17th c.]
- Childish in behavior; juvenile. [from 20th c.]
- Wilhelm Stekel - As quoted in The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J. D. Salinger.
- Wilhelm Stekel - As quoted in The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J. D. Salinger.
Synonyms
- (childish in behavior): infantile, milky; see also Thesaurus:childish
Translations
Noun
immature (plural immatures)
- An immature member of a species.
Related terms
- mature
- immaturity
French
Adjective
immature (plural immatures)
- immature, unripe
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
immature
- inflection of immatur:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Italian
Adjective
immature
- feminine plural of immaturo
Anagrams
- ammutire
Latin
Adjective
imm?t?re
- vocative masculine singular of imm?t?rus
References
- immature in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- immature in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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irrational
English
Etymology
From Latin irrati?n?lis, from ir- + rati?n?lis.
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?r?'sh(?)n?l, IPA(key): /???æ?.(?.)n?l/
Adjective
irrational (comparative more irrational, superlative most irrational)
- Not rational; unfounded or nonsensical.
- July 18, 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises[1]
- Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
- July 18, 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises[1]
- (mathematics, arithmetic, number theory, not comparable) Of a real number, that cannot be written as the ratio of two integers.
- Antonym: rational
- Hyponym: transcendental
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
irrational (plural irrationals)
- A real number that can not be expressed as the quotient of two integers, an irrational number.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.24:
- The square root of 2, which was the first irrational to be discovered, was known to the early Pythagoreans, and ingenious methods of approximating to its value were discovered.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.24:
Translations
German
Alternative forms
- irrationell
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???at?si?ona?l/, /??at?si?o?na?l/
Adjective
irrational (comparative irrationaler, superlative am irrationalsten)
- irrational
Declension
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