different between unacquainted vs immature

English

Etymology

From un- +? acquainted.

Adjective

unacquainted (comparative more unacquainted, superlative most unacquainted)

1. Not acquainted, unfamiliar (with someone or something).
   • 1563, Arthur Golding (translator), The Historie of Leonard Aretine concerning the Warres betwene the Imperialles and the Gothes for the Possession of Italy, London: George Bucke, Book 1, Chapter 10, p. 38,^[1]

     The Romains vnacquainted with such perills, wold not endure the hasard of the siege.

   • 1705, William Dampier, Voyages and Descriptions, London: James Knapton, Volume 2, “Voyages to the Bay of Campeachy,” Chapter 1, p. 26,^[2]

     […] from our Main-top we saw the Islands to the Southward of us, and being unacquainted, knew not whether we might find among them a Channel to pass through […]

   • 1819, Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor, Chapter 20,^[3]

     “ […] Were my mother to see you—to know you, I am sure she would approve; but you are unacquainted personally, and the ancient feud between the families—”

   • 1970, Saul Bellow, Mr. Sammler’s Planet, Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1971, Chapter 1, p. 11,^[4]

     To commonplace actions he brought a special pedantic awkwardness. In Poland, France, England, students, young gentlemen of his time, had been unacquainted with kitchens. Now he did things that cooks and maids had once done.

2. (obsolete) Not usual; unfamiliar; strange.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, Canto 5, p. 66,^[5]

     Who when she saw Duessa sunny bright,

     Adornd with gold and iewels shining cleare,

     She greatly grew amazed at the sight,

     And th’vnacquainted light began to feare:

   • c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King John, Act V, Scene 2,^[6]

     […] [we] fill up

     Her enemies’ ranks,—I must withdraw and weep

     Upon the spot of this enforced cause,—

     To grace the gentry of a land remote,

     And follow unacquainted colours here?

Translations

References

• unacquainted in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• unacquainted in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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)

1. (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 […] .

2. Not fully formed or developed; not grown. [from 17th c.]
3. Childish in behavior; juvenile. [from 20th c.]
   • 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)

1. An immature member of a species.

Related terms

• mature
• immaturity

French

Adjective

immature (plural immatures)

1. immature, unripe

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

immature

1. inflection of immatur:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Adjective

immature

1. feminine plural of immaturo

Anagrams

• ammutire

Latin

Adjective

imm?t?re

1. 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