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Petulant vs Immature - What's the difference?

petulant | immature |

As adjectives the difference between petulant and immature

is that petulant is exuberant, lively while immature is not fully formed or developed, unripe, not mature.

petulant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • childishly irritable
    • Lack of sleep is causing Dave's recent petulant behavior.
  • (obsolete) forward; pert; insolent; wanton.
    • (Burton)

    Synonyms

    * huffy * snappish * irritable * grouchy * bad-tempered * ill-tempered * crabby

    Antonyms

    * easygoing

    immature

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not fully formed or developed, unripe, not mature.
  • Silly or childish in behavior, not mature.
    • You're only young once, but you can be immature the rest of your life.
  • * .
    • The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

    Related terms

    * mature * immaturity ----