impubic

impubic
\\“+\ adjective
Etymology: Latin impubes (from in- in- (I) + pubes adult) + English -ic — more at pubes
: not arrived at puberty : immature

toiled in the fields with her impubic children — Thomas Beer


Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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  • adolescent — Synonyms and related words: at half cock, baby, callow, fledgling, green, half baked, half cocked, half grown, hopeful, ill digested, immature, impubic, infant, junior, juvenal, juvenile, maturescent, minor, nubile, pubescent, raw, sapling, slip …   Moby Thesaurus

  • budding — Synonyms and related words: abecedarian, aboriginal, antenatal, autochthonous, beginning, blooming, blossoming, burgeoning, callow, creative, crescent, developed, dewy, elemental, elementary, embryonic, fetal, florescent, flourishing, flowering,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • callow — Synonyms and related words: a novice at, a stranger to, adolescent, arrested, at half cock, awkward, blankminded, budding, defective, deficient, dewy, dumb, embryonic, empty, empty headed, ever new, evergreen, failing, firsthand, fledgling, fresh …   Moby Thesaurus

  • dewy — Synonyms and related words: boggy, budding, callow, damp, dampish, dank, ever new, evergreen, fenny, firsthand, fledgling, fresh, green, growing, humid, immature, impubic, inexperienced, ingenuous, innocent, intact, juicy, maiden, maidenly,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • fledgling — Synonyms and related words: Young Turk, abecedarian, adolescent, alphabetarian, apprentice, arriviste, articled clerk, at half cock, avifauna, baby, baby bird, beginner, bird, bird of Jove, bird of Juno, bird of Minerva, bird of night, bird of… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • green — Synonyms and related words: Astroturf, a novice at, a stranger to, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acescent, adolescent, aestival, alive, amateur, amateurish, artificial turf, artless, at half cock, awkward, befoolable, beryl green, berylline,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • growing — Synonyms and related words: architecture, assembly, blooming, blossoming, budding, building, burgeoning, callow, casting, composition, construction, conversion, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, crescendoing, crescent, cultivation, developed,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • half baked — Synonyms and related words: a bit previous, adolescent, advanced, amateur, amateurish, arrested, at half cock, babbling, backward, blithering, burbling, callow, crackbrained, cracked, crazy, cretinistic, cretinous, dabbling, dilettante,… …   Moby Thesaurus

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