New to a position, occupation, status, or place; newly or recently recruited. Also: inexperienced or unpractised (at, in, †on, or †of a subject…

Untried, inexperienced.

Inexperienced, inexpert, unskilled. Also: uneducated, unlearned; ignorant; lacking in knowledge or learning. Of the hand or a tool.

Of a person (also occasionally of an animal): inexperienced; unskilled, untrained; naive. Cf. Johnny Raw, n. With at, in, to. Now rare.

Not yet stimulated by tasting flesh; figurative, untried, inexperienced, new. Also absol.

Unskilled, inexperienced, unfamiliar. Obsolete.

Of a person: unpractised, unskilled, untrained; raw, inexperienced. Obsolete.

Not having had extensive practice; inexperienced, inexpert; untrained.

Not furnished with, or taught by, experience; not skilled or trained in this way.

Without const.: Inexperienced; ignorant. Also with that and clause.

General attributive and appositive, as prentice boy, prentice lad, prentice years, etc.; often implying inexperience as of a novice or beginner, as…

(esp. of a soldier) unskilled, untrained, or inexperienced (cf. sense B. 2a).

Untried, inexperienced.

Unskilled, inexperienced. Obsolete.

Inexperienced.

Not experienced; without experience; having no (or little) experience; lacking the knowledge or skill derived from experience. Const. in.

Of a person: unskilled, inexperienced. Cf. fresh water, adj. 2a. Obsolete. rare.

Not having experience; = inexperienced, adj.

Unskilful, inexpert.

In speech and representations of speech: young or inexperienced.

colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). (In senses A. 3 and A. 4.) Contemptible, despicable; thuggish; cowardly; inexperienced, raw.

(a) originally Military (of a person) inexperienced, raw; (b) shoddy, shabby, miserably inadequate.