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impuberal en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ɪmˈpjuːbəɹəl/ (UK)

Etymology

From the stem of Latin impubes, from im- + pubes (“mature age, puberty”).

Meanings

  1. (rare) Immature; not having come to puberty.
    • Another revelation of impuberal softness [...] was afforded by a photo of her in which she sat in the buff on the grass, combing her sun-shot hair and spreading wide, in false perspective, the lovely legs of a giantess. 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, page 41:

Forms

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most impuberal Degree=Sup lexicographic
more impuberal Degree=Cmp lexicographic