Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not having reached puberty.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not having arrived at puberty; immature.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective rare
Immature ; not having come topuberty .
Etymologies
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From the stem of Latin impubes, from im- + pubes ("mature age, puberty").
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Examples
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Another revelation of impuberal softness (its middle line just distinguishable from the less vertical grass-blade next to it) was afforded by a photo of her in which she sat in the buff on the grass, combing her sun-shot hair and spreading wide, in false perspective, the lovely legs of a giantess.
The Guardian World News Martin Amis 2009
pavonine commented on the word impuberal
not adult,prepubescent
Nabokov,Transparent Things
November 9, 2007