unpremature

unpremature

English

Etymology

un- +‎ premature

Adjective

unpremature (comparative more unpremature, superlative most unpremature)

1. (rare) Not premature; timely.
   • 1809, David Morrice, Mentor, or The moral conduct of youth from the academy to manhood

     Surrounded by their children, their gradual and unpremature decay conducts them, by gentle degrees, to the peaceful grave […]

   • 1818, Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions &c (page 360)

     The advanced age of her Majesty rendered death unpremature, and though the loss is deeply and long to be deplored, the accompanying circumstances at least were not so distressing […]

Derived terms

• unprematurely