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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immature |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, blooming, blossoming, boyish, boylike, budding, burgeoning, callow, childish, childlike, crude, developing, early, fledgling, fresh, girlish, girllike, green*, growing, half-grown, ignorant, inexperienced, infant, inferior, junior, juvenile, little, modern, new, newborn, newish, not aged, pubescent, puerile, punk, raw, recent, tender, tenderfoot, undeveloped, undisciplined, unfinished, unfledged, unlearned, unpracticed, unripe, unseasoned, untried, unversed, vernal, youthful |
| Notes: | to be young is to be immature or not old; to be youthful is having the attractive qualities of a young person |
| Antonyms: | mature, old, older |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | minor-league |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | minor |
| Synonyms: | accessory, below the mark, bush-league, casual, dependent, dinky, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inferior, junior, lesser, light, low, lower, minus, negligible, paltry, petty, piddling, second-string, secondary, slight, small, small-fry, small-time, smaller, subaltern, subordinate, subsidiary, tacky, trifling, trivial, two-bit, under, unimportant, younger |
| Main Entry: | smalltime |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | minor |
| Synonyms: | accessory, below the mark, bush-league, casual, dependent, dinky, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inferior, junior, lesser, light, low, lower, minor-league, minus, negligible, paltry, petty, piddling, second-string, secondary, slight, small, small-fry, small-time, smaller, subaltern, subordinate, subsidiary, tacky*, trifling, trivial, two-bit, under, unimportant, younger |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | adolescent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | preadult or immature |
| Synonyms: | boyish, girlish, growing, juvenile, pubescent, puerile, teen, teenage, young, youthful |
| Antonyms: | adult, infant |
| Main Entry: | budding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | developing, flowering |
| Synonyms: | beginning, blossoming, burgeoning, bursting forth, embryonic, fledgling, fresh, germinal, germinating, growing, incipient, maturing, nascent, opening, potential, promising, pubescent, pullulating, shooting up, sprouting, vegetating, young |
| Antonyms: | dying, shrinking, withering |
| Main Entry: | callow |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immature |
| Synonyms: | crude, green, guileless, inexperienced, infant, jejune, jellybean, juvenile, kid, low tech, naive, not dry behind ears, puerile, raw, sophomore, tenderfoot, unbaked, unfledged, unripe, unsophisticated, untrained, untried, young |
| Notes: | callow means lacking experience of life, immature - while shallow means lacking depth of intellect, emotion, or knowledge |
| Antonyms: | experienced, initiated, mature, sophisticated |
| Main Entry: | childish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immature, silly |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, baby, babyish, callow, childlike, foolish, frivolous, green, infantile, infantine, innocent, jejune, juvenile, kid stuff, naive, puerile, unsophisticated, young, youthful |
| Notes: | childlike refers to a person's temperament, whereas childish refers to a person's behavior |
| Antonyms: | adult, mature, sensible, serious, wise |
| Main Entry: | early |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in the beginning |
| Synonyms: | a bit previous, aboriginal, ancient, antecedent, antediluvian, antiquated, brand-new, budding, early bird, fresh, initial, new, original, preceding, premier, prevenient, previous, primal, prime, primeval, primitive, primordial, prior, pristine, proleptical, raw, recent, undeveloped, young |
| Antonyms: | late |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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