Old-fashioned vs Mature - What's the difference?
old-fashioned | mature | Related terms |
Of a thing, outdated or no longer in vogue.
* , chapter=1
, title= Of a person, preferring the customs of earlier times.
A whiskey-based cocktail.
* 1996 , Paul F. Boller, Presidential Anecdotes (page 286)
Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
Profound; careful.
(obsolete) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
To become mature; to ripen.
To gain experience or wisdom with age.
(finance) To reach the date when payment is due
Old-fashioned is a related term of mature.
As nouns the difference between old-fashioned and mature
is that old-fashioned is a whiskey-based cocktail while mature is masts (of a ship).As an adjective old-fashioned
is of a thing, outdated or no longer in vogue.old-fashioned
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Alternative forms
* old fashionedAdjective
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned,
Usage notes
* Said of all kinds of things including words, houses, places, chimneys, character traits, cookware, education, music, or style.Noun
(wikipedia old-fashioned) (en noun)- At the end of the workday, the Trumans liked to have a cocktail before dinner. Shortly after they moved into the White House, Mrs. Truman rang for the butler, Alonzo Fields, one afternoon and ordered two old-fashioneds .
mature
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Adjective
(en-adj)- She is quite mature for her age.
- The headmaster decided to expel the boy after a mature consideration.
