premature

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. adjective born after a gestation period of less than the normal time
  2. adjective too soon or too hasty
  3. adjective uncommonly early or before the expected time

Etymology

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

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