callow (redirected from callower)

cal·low  (kl)

adj.

Lacking adult maturity or experience; immature: a callow young man.

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[Middle English calwe, bald, from Old English calu.]

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callow·ness n.

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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

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Callow [ˈkæləʊ]

n

(Biographies / Callow, Simon (1949 M, British, THEATRE: actor, THEATRE: theatre director, WRITING: author) Simon. born 1949, British actor and theatre director

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

callow - young and inexperienced; "a fledgling enterprise"; "a fledgling skier"; "an unfledged lawyer" fledgling, unfledged inexperienced, inexperient - lacking practical experience or training

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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

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callow [ˈkæləʊ] adj → immaturo/a