premature

[premature]

Premature means "not yet ready." Something that is premature arrives early, like a premature baby born before her due date, or the soggy cake you took out of the oven prematurely.

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Adjective S.
uncommonly early or before the expected time; "illness led to his premature death"; "alcohol brought him to an untimely end"

Adjective S.
too soon or too hasty; "our condemnation of him was a bit previous"; "a premature judgment"

Adjective
born after a gestation period of less than the normal time; "a premature infant"


a.
Mature or ripe before the proper time; as, the premature fruits of a hotbed.

a.
Happening, arriving, existing, or performed before the proper or usual time; adopted too soon; too early; untimely; as, a premature fall of snow; a premature birth; a premature opinion; premature decay.

a.
Arriving or received without due authentication or evidence; as, a premature report.


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Usage Examples

If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.

Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

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Other Usage Examples

Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.

Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.

Taking pre-natal vitamins can minimise birth defects and can lower the chances both of morning sickness and premature delivery.

My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.

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