Premature

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  • adjective. Occurring, growing, or existing before the customary, correct, or assigned time; uncommonly or unexpectedly early.
  • adjective. Born after a gestation period of less than the normal time.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Arriving too early at maturity; mature or ripe before the proper time; hence, coming into existence or occurring too soon; too early; untimely; overhasty.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Mature or ripe before the proper time.
  • adjective. Happening, arriving, existing, or performed before the proper or usual time; adopted too soon; too early; untimely
  • adjective. Arriving or received without due authentication or evidence.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Occurring before a state of readiness or maturity has arrived.
  • adjective. Taking place earlier than anticipated, prepared for, or desired.
  • adjective. Suffering from premature ejaculation.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. uncommonly early or before the expected time
  • adjective. born after a gestation period of less than the normal time
  • adjective. too soon or too hasty
  • Word Usage
    "The most general and inclusive way in which to designate all the phenomena that sociology proper considers, without importing into the term premature hypotheses by way of explanation, is to assert that they are the phenomena of "contact" between persons."
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