PREMATURELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prematurely mean? 

• PREMATURELY (adverb)
  The adverb PREMATURELY has 2 senses:

1. (of childbirth) before the end of the normal period of gestation

2. too soon; in a premature manner

  Familiarity information: PREMATURELY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREMATURELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of childbirth) before the end of the normal period of gestation

Context example:

the child was born prematurely

Pertainym:

premature (born after a gestation period of less than the normal time)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Too soon; in a premature manner

Synonyms:

prematurely; untimely

Context example:

I spoke prematurely

Pertainym:

premature (uncommonly early or before the expected time)

 Context examples 

Those who were most severely obese had a 50% higher risk of dying prematurely from any cause than those of normal weight.

(Middle Age Severely Obese People More Likely to Die Early, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Impulsivity refers to where we respond and act prematurely, without considering the consequences of our actions.

(Young people at risk of addiction show differences in key brain region, University of Cambridge)

If I had not rearranged mine there would not be one tied in the whole kingdom now, and a great art would have been prematurely lost.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mutations in the gene, which encode for products that terminate prematurely, are a factor in familial cerebral cavernous malformations.

(KRIT1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

And I could not rid myself of it by any legal proceedings: for the doctors now discovered that my wife was mad—her excesses had prematurely developed the germs of insanity.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

This was a hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman, with a shock of hair prematurely white, and a boisterous and decided manner.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“This has a domino effect that results in the magnetic field becoming weaker and the star to age prematurely.”

(NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory Finds Planet That Makes Star Act Deceptively Old, NASA)

The report notes pregnant women exposed to polluted air are likely to give birth prematurely and have low-weight babies.

(WAir Pollution a Health Risk for Children, Lisa Schlein/VOA)

But he applied that maxim to our marriage, my dear; and that was so far prematurely entered into, in consequence, that I never recovered the expense.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Yes, my boy, these were all done prematurely before my biographer had come to glorify me.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)