unripe
adjective
not ripe; immature; not fully developed.
unripeness
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a word derived from
unripe.
Example Sentences
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His face had a quality of inlaid unripeness.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
Oh, yes, they had seen it, each brother and sister beneath the sound of his voice tonight, and they had seen the destruction caused by a so lamentable unripeness!
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
One of the prime characteristics of the man of culture is freedom from provincialism, complete deliverance from rigidity of temper, narrowness of interest, uncertainty of taste, and general unripeness.
From Books and Culture by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Evil is imperfection, unripeness, shapelessness, weakness in, or opposition to, the creative spirit.
From Essays Æsthetical by George H. (George Henry) Calvert
Inconstancy is not justified by natural law, for it means unripeness of soul.
From A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Mrs. Sutherland Orr
