Meanings
comparative more impuberal · superlative most impuberal
- rareImmature; 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
Origin
- Latinimpubes
- Englishimpuberal
From the stem of Latin impubes, from im- + pubes (“mature age, puberty”).
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