Definition of Premature

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Premature

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

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.

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

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Premature Quotations

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

I was born nine months premature.
Jay London

Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets.
Francis Crick

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian

The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
Peter Ustinov

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
Jean Rostand

As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects.
Solomon Ortiz

He was born early. But he was born within a safe range of premature.
Paul Reiser

When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

Premature Translations

premature in Italian is parto prematuro, prematuro
premature in Latin is praecox
premature in Spanish is prematuro

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