Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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immature

/ɪməˈtjʊə(ɹ)/ adjective, noun

Forms immatures

  1. adjective (now rare) Occurring before the proper time; untimely, premature (especially of death).
  2. adjective Not fully formed or developed; not grown.
  3. adjective Childish in behavior; juvenile. “You're only young once, but you can be immature the rest of your life.”
  4. noun An immature member of a species.

Synonyms

infantile milky babish babyish bairnish childish dootsie hissy lactifluous infantine kiddish juvenile puerile young green unripe unripened unfledged

Antonyms

mature

Etymology

From Middle French immature. Partially displaced unripe, from Old English unrīpe (“unripe, immature”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Not mature; unripe; not arrived at perfection of full development; crude; unfinished; as, immature fruit; immature character; immature plans. "An ill-measured and immature counsel." Bacon.
  2. adjective Premature; untimely; too early; as, an immature death. [R.] Jer.

Etymology [L. immaturus; pref. im- not + maturus mature, ripe. See Mature.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “immature”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “immature” (best matches first).