Hyphenation of premature

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word premature? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

pre-ma-ture

Definitions of premature:

1.	Born after a gestation period of less than the normal time A premature infant
2.	Too soon or too hasty Our condemnation of him was a bit previous A premature judgment
3.	Uncommonly early or before the expected time Illness led to his premature death Alcohol brought him to an untimely end

Synonyms of premature:

adj	premature, immature
adj	previous, early
adj	untimely, early

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.