unfledged

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un·fledged

(ŭn-flĕjd′)

adj.

1. Not having the feathers necessary to fly. Used of a young bird.

2. Inexperienced, immature, or untried.

unfledged

(ʌnˈflɛdʒd)

adj

1. (Zoology) (of a young bird) not having developed adult feathers

2. immature and undeveloped

un•fledged

(ʌnˈflɛdʒd)

adj.

1. not fledged; without sufficient feathers for flight, as a young bird.

2. immature; callow.

[1595–1605]

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Adj.	1.	unfledged - (of birds) not yet having developed feathers; "a small unfledged sparrow on the window sill" immature fledged, mature - (of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination
	2.	unfledged - (of an arrow) not equipped with feathers; "shot an unfledged arrow" fledgeless, unvaned featherless, unfeathered - having no feathers; "a featherless biped"; "the unfeathered legs of an Orpington"
	3.	unfledged - young and inexperienced; "a fledgling enterprise"; "a fledgling skier"; "an unfledged lawyer" callow, fledgling inexperienced, inexperient - lacking practical experience or training

unfledged

adjective inexperienced, immature, callow, young, green, raw, undeveloped, untried new-hatched, unfledged courage

Translations

unfledged

[ˈʌnˈfledʒd] ADJ → implume

unfledged

adj bird → (noch) nicht flügge; (fig) → unerfahren

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A strong breeze soon fanned the spark into a flame, and the eaglets, as yet unfledged and helpless, were roasted in their nest and dropped down dead at the bottom of the tree.

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The Constituents said he was an honourable man and elected him to the United States Congress, unpledged and unfledged.

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How could you, my poor little unfledged nestling, find yourself food, and defend yourself from misfortune, and ward off the wiles of evil men?

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Aunt Jamesina had a proper respect for the cloth even in the case of an unfledged parson.

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I cannot see how the future of an unfledged brat like that can possibly concern you

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And Hareton has been cast out like an unfledged dunnock

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The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the sea.

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said the proud papa, beaming upon the little red squirmers as if they were unfledged angels.

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When I was as old as you, I was a feeling fellow enough, partial to the unfledged, unfostered, and unlucky; but Fortune has knocked me about since: she has even kneaded me with her knuckles, and now I flatter myself I am hard and tough as an India-rubber ball; pervious, though, through a chink or two still, and with one sentient point in the middle of the lump.

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If the animal prove a quadruped, Ishmael is a true man--if a biped, fledged or unfledged, I care not, he is false, and our compactum at an end

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The little Durands were there, I conclude," said she, "with their mouths open to catch the music, like unfledged sparrows ready to be fed.

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It confides an unfledged scion to some head-clerk, or gives him in charge of a directory who initiates him into what Bilboquet, that profound philosopher, called the high comedy of government; he is spared all the horrors of drudgery and is finally appointed to some important office.

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