Premature: Definition and part of speech

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Premature

  1. a. Arriving or received without due authentication or evidence; as, a premature report.
  2. a. Mature or ripe before the proper time; as, the premature fruits of a hotbed.
  3. a. Happening, arriving, existing, or performed before the proper or usual time; adopted too soon; too early; untimely; as, a premature fall of snow; a premature birth; a premature opinion; premature decay.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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