callow as an adjective: - 1
callow
adjective
1 callow
Young and inexperienced.
synonyms: fledgling, unfledged.
Roget 127:
young,
youthful,
juvenile,
green,
callow,
budding,
sappy,
puisne,
beardless,
under age,
in one's teens;
in statu pupillari [Lat.];
younger,
junior;
hebetic†,
unfledged.
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Roget 129:
infantine†,
infantile;
puerile;
boyish,
girlish,
childish,
babyish,
kittenish;
baby;
newborn,
unfledged,
new-fledged,
callow.
in the cradle,
in swaddling clothes,
in long clothes,
in arms,
in leading strings;
at the breast;
in one's teens.
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Roget 226:
divested
etc.
v.;
bare,
naked,
nude;
undressed,
undraped;
denuded;
exposed;
in dishabille;
bald,
threadbare,
ragged,
callow,
roofless.
in a state of nature,
in nature's garb,
in the buff,
in native buff,
in birthday suit;
in puris naturalibus [Lat.];
with nothing on,
stark naked,
stark raving naked [Joc.];
bald as a coot,
bare as the back of one's hand;
out at elbows;
barefoot;
bareback,
barebacked;
leafless,
napless†,
hairless.
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noun
Roget 129:
infant,
babe,
baby,
babe in arms;
nurseling,
suckling,
yearling,
weanling;
papoose,
bambino;
kid;
vagitus.
child,
bairn [Scot.],
little one,
brat,
chit,
pickaninny,
urchin;
bantling,
bratling†;
elf.
youth,
boy,
lad,
stripling,
youngster,
youngun,
younker†,
callant†,
whipster†,
whippersnapper,
whiffet [U.S.],
schoolboy,
hobbledehoy,
hopeful,
cadet,
minor,
master.
scion;
sap,
seedling;
tendril,
olive branch,
nestling,
chicken,
larva,
chrysalis,
tadpole,
whelp,
cub,
pullet,
fry,
callow;
codlin, codling;
foetus,
calf,
colt,
pup,
foal,
kitten;
lamb,
lambkin†;
aurelia†,
caterpillar,
cocoon,
nymph,
nympha†,
orphan,
pupa,
staddle†.
girl;
lass,
lassie;
wench,
miss,
damsel,
demoiselle;
maid,
maiden;
virgin;
hoyden.
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Moby thesaurus: a novice at, a stranger to, adolescent, arrested, at half cock, awkward, blankminded, budding, defective, deficient, dewy, dumb, embryonic, empty, empty-headed, ever-new, evergreen, failing, firsthand, fledgling, fresh, gauche, green, green as grass, groping, growing, guileless, half-baked, half-cocked, half-grown, hypoplastic, ignorant, ill-digested, immature, impubic, in arrear, in arrears, in default, in short supply, inadequate, inane, incomplete, inexperienced, infant, ingenuous, innocent, intact, juicy, juvenile, know-nothing, lacking, maiden, maidenly, minor, missing, naive, needing, neoteric, nescient, nestling, new, new to, new-fledged, original, part, partial, patchy, pristine, raw, ripening, sappy, scant, scanty, scrappy, sempervirent, short, shy, simple, sketchy, strange to, tender, tentative, unaccustomed to, unacquainted, unacquainted with, unadult, unapprized, unbeaten, uncomprehending, unconversant, unconversant with, underage, underdeveloped, underripe, undeveloped, unenlightened, unexperienced, unfamiliar, unfamiliar with, unfledged, unformed, ungrown, unhandled, unilluminated, uninformed, uninitiated, uninitiated in, unintelligent, unknowing, unlicked, unmatured, unmellowed, unposted, unpracticed, unpracticed in, unripe, unseasoned, unskilled in, unsophisticated, unsure, untouched, untried, untrodden, unused, unused to, unversed, unversed in, vacuous, vernal, virgin, virginal, wanting, young, youthful ... show more.
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