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
Grant that it showed a certain crudeness, unripeness, in one side of the man; later in life, he could not have erred in this way.
From Whitman A Study by John Burroughs
What a foolish dread it is,—showing unripeness rather than youth,—the dread of growing old!
From A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA) by Lucy Larcom
The bending branches were just transmuting their green unripeness into scarlet, gold, and purple—the imperial colors of Nature when crowned for the festival of autumn.
From The Golden Dog by William Kirby
