premature
adjEtymology
From Latin praemātūrus, equivalent to pre- + mature. First use appears c. 1440 in a translation of Palladius's De Re Rustica.
- derived from praemātūrus
Definitions
Occurring before a state of readiness or maturity has arrived.
- a premature birth
- premature reports of the singer's death
Taking place earlier than anticipated, prepared for, or desired.
- I was lost in reveries of death, and the idea of premature burial held continual possession of my brain.
Suffering from premature ejaculation.
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An infant born prematurely.
The neighborhood
- synonymanticipatory
- synonymearly
- synonymforward
- synonymhasty
- synonymprecipitate
- synonymprecocious
- synonympremature
- synonymprevenient
- synonymprevious
- synonymunseasonable
- synonymuntimely
- antonymnonpremature
- antonymoverdue
- antonympunctual
- neighborunexpected
- neighborunprepared
- neighborprompt
- neighborprematurely
- neighborrathe
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at premature. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at premature. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at premature
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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