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Callow

Callow Meaning & Definition
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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