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callow

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cal·low  (kl)
adj.
Lacking adult maturity or experience; immature: a callow young man.
[Middle English calwe, bald, from Old English calu.]
callow·ness n.
callow [ˈkæləʊ]
adj
1. lacking experience of life; immature
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) Rare (of a young bird) unfledged and usually lacking feathers
[Old English calu; related to Old High German kalo, Old Slavonic golú bare, naked, Lithuanian galva head, Latin calvus bald]
callowness  n
Callow [ˈkæləʊ]
n
(Biographies / Callow, Simon (1949 M, British, THEATRE: actor, THEATRE: theatre director, WRITING: author) Simon. born 1949, British actor and theatre director
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.callowcallow - young and inexperienced; "a fledgling enterprise"; "a fledgling skier"; "an unfledged lawyer"
fledgling, unfledged
inexperienced, inexperient - lacking practical experience or training
callow
adjective inexperienced, juvenile, naive, immature, raw, untried, green, unsophisticated, puerile, guileless, jejune, unfledged Although he's 25, he still behaves like a callow youth in some ways.
Translations
callow [ˈkæləʊ] ADJ (= immature) [youth] → imberbe, bisoño
callow [ˈkæləʊ] adj [youth] → sans expérience (de la vie)
call sign call signal n → indicatif m (d'appel)
call-up [ˈkɔːlʌp] n
(= military service) → appel m (sous les drapeaux)
(British) (= selection for team) → sélection f
call-up papers npl → papiers mpl militaires
callow
adj → unreif; ideas etc → unausgegoren; a callow youth → ein grüner Junge (inf)
callow [ˈkæləʊ] adj → immaturo/a
callow [ˈkæləʊ] adj → immaturo/a


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And then our jolly little nest here would be broken up -- and we poor callow nestlings thrown out on the cruel world of boardinghouses again.
Anne of The Island by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
Jansenius, feared for Agatha, who, time after time when a callow gentleman of wealth and position was introduced to her, drove him brusquely away as soon as he ventured to hint that 200 his affections were concerned in their acquaintanceship.
An Unsocial Socialist by Shaw, George Bernard View in context
"Don't be surprised at that," returned the musician; "for with the callow poets of our day the way is for every one to write as he pleases and pilfer where he chooses, whether it be germane to the matter or not, and now-a-days there is no piece of silliness they can sing or write that is not set down to poetic licence.
Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context
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