premature

See also: prématuré, prémature, and prematüre

English

Alternative forms

• præmature (archaic)

Etymology

From Latin praemātūrus, equivalent to pre- +‎ mature. First use appears c. 1440 in a translation of Palladius's De Re Rustica.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌpɹɛ.məˈtjʊə/, /ˈpɹɛ.mə.tjə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌpɹi.məˈtʊɹ/, /ˌpɹi.məˈt͡ʃʊɹ/

Adjective

premature (comparative more premature, superlative most premature)

1. Occurring before a state of readiness or maturity has arrived.

   a premature birth

   premature reports of the singer's death

2. Taking place earlier than anticipated, prepared for, or desired.
   • 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial:

     I was lost in reveries of death, and the idea of premature burial held continual possession of my brain.

3. (informal) Suffering from premature ejaculation.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:premature

Derived terms

• premature antifascist
• premature birth
• premature ejaculation
• premature ejaculator
• prematurely
• premature optimisation
• premature optimization

Translations

occurring before a state of readiness or maturity

• Albanian: parakohshëm (sq)
• Belarusian: перадча́сны (pjeradčásny), заўча́сны (zaŭčásny), дача́сны (dačásny)
• Bulgarian: преждевре́менен (bg) (preždevrémenen)
• Catalan: prematur
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 過早的 / 过早的 (zh) (guòzǎo de), 先期的 (zh) (xiānqī de)

• Czech: předčasný (cs)
• Dutch: prematuur (nl), voortijdig (nl)
• Finnish: ennenaikainen (fi)
• French: prématuré (fr)
• German: frühreif (de)
• Hebrew: טרם לבגרות (térem l'bagrút)
• Indonesian: prematur (id)
• Ingrian: ennenaikain
• Irish: réamhaibí (of birth), anabaí (of birth)
• Latin: praecox, praecoquus
• Macedonian: предвремен (predvremen)
• Manx: neuappee
• Maranao: bakakaw
• Polish: przedwczesny (pl)
• Portuguese: prematuro (pt)
• Russian: преждевре́менный (ru) (preždevrémennyj)
• Slovak: predčasný
• Spanish: prematuro
• Ukrainian: передча́сний (peredčásnyj), завча́сний (zavčásnyj), доча́сний (dočásnyj)

taking place earlier than anticipated

• Albanian: parakohshëm (sq)
• Belarusian: перадча́сны (pjeradčásny)
• Bulgarian: преждевре́менен (bg) (preždevrémenen)
• Catalan: prematur
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 過早的 / 过早的 (zh) (guòzǎo de), 先期的 (zh) (xiānqī de)

• Czech: předčasný (cs)
• Dutch: voorbarig (nl), prematuur (nl)
• Finnish: ennenaikainen (fi)
• French: prématuré (fr)
• German: vorzeitig (de), verfrüht (de)
• Ingrian: ennenaikain
• Irish: roimh am
• Macedonian: предвремен (predvremen)
• Ottoman Turkish: اركن (erken)
• Russian: преждевре́менный (ru) (preždevrémennyj)
• Slovak: predčasný
• Spanish: prematuro
• Ukrainian: передча́сний (peredčásnyj)

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Translations to be checked

• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} پێشوەخت (pêşwext)

Noun

premature (plural prematures)

1. An infant born prematurely.

See also

• get ahead of oneself

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pre.maˈtu.re/
• Rhymes: -ure
• Hyphenation: pre‧ma‧tù‧re

Adjective

premature

1. feminine plural of prematuro

Noun

premature f pl

1. plural of prematura

Anagrams

• permutare, premurate