premature
IPA: primʌtʃˈʊr
noun
- An infant born prematurely.
adjective
- Occurring before a state of readiness or maturity has arrived.
- Taking place earlier than anticipated, prepared for, or desired.
- (informal) Suffering from premature ejaculation.
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Examples of "premature" in Sentences
- The announcement seems to be premature.
- Flowers will fade and shrivel prematurely.
- Danny icily rejected the idea as premature.
- Let's not deconstruct the article prematurely.
- The announcement is premature, to say the least.
- Sorry for the confusion and the premature cleanup.
- Now sir, that is what I call a premature judgment!
- I object to the premature closure of the discussion.
- Hence the deleting of the mentioned group was premature.
- Clearly lifting the protection of the page was premature.
- The discussion was prematurely cut short by the redirect.
- Trustee Kirsten Livak apologized to audience members about what she described as a premature announcement.
- Mr. Bush warned against what he called a premature withdrawal of U.S. forces, saying the troop increase he ordered needs time to work.
- Mr. Bush will repeat his mantra about the harm he says withdrawing troops prematurely would cause and vow not to set what he calls premature deadlines.
- In a statement in Pretoria CP leader Dr Ferdi Hartzenberg also cautioned against what he called the premature outlining of borders for such a "volkstaat".
- Train traffic had been worsened Tuesday by a wildcat strike by Belgian train drivers protesting what they called the premature blaming of one their own for the accident.
- So, the chairman of the commission died pretty young, in his early 40's from what I call premature senility, that is, arteriosclerosis, which is unusual, but he did and died very suddenly.
- 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.