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Callow
| Callow Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Callow?
[adj] lacking experience of life; "a callow youth of seventeen"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Callow: immature |
inexperienced |
naive |
unsophisticated
Related Terms | Find terms related to Callow: a novice at |
a stranger to |
adolescent |
arrested |
at half cock |
awkward |
blankminded |
budding |
defective |
deficient |
dewy |
dumb |
embryonic |
empty |
empty-headed |
evergreen |
ever-new |
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
See Also |
Callow In Webster's Dictionary
\Cal"low\, a. [OE. calewe, calu, bald, AS. calu; akin to
D. kaal, OHG. chalo, G. Kuhl; cf. L. calvus.]
1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged.
An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er
the callow young, a sparrow pressed. --Dryden.
2. Immature; boyish; ``green''; as, a callow youth.
I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid.
--Old Play
[1675].
\Cal*low"\, n. (Zo["o]l.) [Named from its note.]
A kind of duck. See {Old squaw}.
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