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[ US /ˌpɹiməˈtʃʊɹ/ ]
[ UK /pɹɪmət‍ʃˈɔː/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. too soon or too hasty
    our condemnation of him was a bit previous
    a premature judgment
  2. uncommonly early or before the expected time
    alcohol brought him to an untimely end
    illness led to his premature death
  3. born after a gestation period of less than the normal time
    a premature infant

How To Use premature In A Sentence

  • There have been many histories of Jerusalem, from Jeremiah's sixth century B.C. monody to "For Jerusalem," a premature happy ending written in the 1970s by a successful mayor, Teddy Kollek. City of Peace—and War
  • It was a brave gamble, a bid for power, by an ambitious, clever and canny politician who saw his career facing a premature end.
  • Prolonged attacks of dyspepsia, nervous headaches, chronic granular kidney disease, gout, sciatic rheumatism, middle ear abscesses, above all vertigo and gall stone colic were intermittent or chronic ailments that gradually made him the typical embodiment of a supersensitively nervous, prematurely old man. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
  • At worst the disinfectant is prematurely exhausted, an effect known as organic overload, allowing large numbers of micro-organisms to survive.
  • Umbilical hernias occur more often in premature infants and those of African American descent.
  • I remind you that my staff and I considered this indi'vidual's release and return premature. The False Mirror
  • Occasionally, the author appears to overreach his material to draw premature conclusions.
  • The mildest critics argued that they were premature and that a decent interval should have been allowed before the struggle to analyse and understand began.
  • It is early evening, but the sky is prematurely dark; thunderheads have blocked the last rays of the sun.
  • The criticism was unfair, or at least premature. Times, Sunday Times
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