unexperiencedadj.
1.
a. Not furnished with, or taught by, experience; not skilled or trained in this way.
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the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > inexperienced
youngOE
unfraisted?a1400
rudec1489
raw1534
unfleshed1542
untraded1542
fresh water?1548
unpractised1551
unexperienced1569
unacquainted1581
prenticea1586
fresh-watered1590
unsifted1604
unseen1606
unexperient1609
inexperienced1626
low water1643
inexperient1670
unproficient1794
nyoung1852
punk1907
raggedy-ass1930
1569 T. Underdowne tr. Ovid Inuectiue against Ibis Pref. sig. A vjv If you wil bear with mine vnexperienced iudgemente.
1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 273 No man will commit his..bodie to an vnexperienced physitian.
1678 T. Otway Friendship in Fashion iv. 41 Her naturall and unexperienced Tenderness exceeded practis'd Charms.
1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 175. ⁋10 Credulity is the common failing of unexperienced virtue.
1793 T. Holcroft tr. J. C. Lavater Ess. Physiognomy (abridged ed.) i. 16 Shades scarcely discernible to an unexperienced eye.
1825 in J. M. Good Study Med. (ed. 2) II. 213 Let the young and unexperienced practitioner guard himself against it.
1860 A. L. Windsor Ethica iii. 146 An unexperienced hand might have expected [etc.].
b. Const. in.
ΚΠ
1589 Trve Coppie Disc. Voy. Spaine 12 Our English Surgions (for the most) part bee vnexperienced in hurts that come by shot.
1620 Horæ Subseciuæ 85 To be vnexperienced in the first, argues much disability for the latter.
1654 tr. M. Martini Bellum Tartaricum 211 He quickly dispersed them, being wholy unexperienced in Military Discipline.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 173 Unexperienced as I am in the commerce of life.
1776 H. Brooke Fool of Quality (rev. ed.) IV. xvii. 96 My..child here, is unexperienced in the world.
c. absol. (with the).
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society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > novice or beginner
younglingOE
new-comeOE
novice1340
ginner?c1400
beginner1470
apprentice1489
prentice1489
infant1526
freshmana1557
intrant1560
enterer1565
puny?1570
weakling1575
new comeling1587
novist1587
incipient1589
puisne1592
abecedary1596
neophyte1600
abecedarian1603
bachelor1604
novelist?1608
alphabetary1611
breeching boy1611
tiro1611
alphabetarian1614
principiant1619
unexperienced1622
velvet head1631
undergraduatea1659
young stager1664
greenhorn1672
battledore boy1693
youngster1706
tironist1716
novitiatea1734
recruit1749
griffin1793
initiate1811
Johnny Newcome1815
Johnny Raw1823
griff1829
plebe1833
Johnny-come-lately1839
new chum1851
blanc-bec1853
fledgling1856
rookie1868
elementarian1876
tenderfoot1881
shorthorn1888
new kid1894
cheechako1897
ring-neck1898
Johnny1901
rook1902
fresh meat1908
malihini1914
initiand1915
stooge1930
intakea1943
cub1966
the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > inexperience > inexperienced person or people
greenhead1576
unexperienced1622
green man1635
greenhorn1672
amateur1767
green1824
greeny1834
Hoosier1846
shavetail1846
Boy Scout1918
nig-nog1953
1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman xvi. 200 If it be the common Law of Nature, that the learned should..instruct the ignorant, the experienced, the vnexperienced.
1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xix. sig. Hh7 Whatever the unexperienc'd may imagine.
1743 S. Johnson Deb. Senate Lilliput in Gentleman's Mag. June 292 By these Arts I have known the Young and Unexperienced kept in Suspence.
1810 G. Crabbe Borough xxiii. 318 The unexperienc'd and the inexpert.
2. Not known or felt by experience.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > that which is unknown > [adjective]
uncouthc897
neweOE
fremdc950
unknownOE
unseena1200
unketha1275
unkedc1275
strange13..
disguisyc1330
unknowedc1380
aliena1382
unhearda1382
unkenneda1400
ranishc1400
ignorant?a1475
unwittenc1485
unbekend1513
unacquainted1551
unkent1579
unwitted1582
unfamiliar1593
unsounded1594
incognite1609
ignote1623
in the urn1658
unfathomed1659
unexperienced1698
unknown-of1700
undiscovered1707
inaudite1708
darka1727
unascertained1751
unwist1757
unknownst1805
unbeknown1824
unbeknownst1848
unsampled1890
1698 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. IV. 89 A new and altogether unexperienc'd State and way of Life.
1721 J. Perry Acct. Stopping Daggenham Breach 69 My Work was in a Method entirely new, and unexperienc'd by those Persons appointed to carry on the same in my Absence.
1756 Monitor No. 27. I. 239 The towers..gave me an unexperienced delight, as I had never seen such a place before.
1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby III. ix. v. 321 There was..no unexperienced scene or sensation of life to distract his intelligence.
Derivatives
unexˈperiencedness n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > inexperience
rawness1548
novicie1582
inexperience1595
unexperience1611
unpractisedness1628
unexperiencedness1654
inexperiencedness1725
callowness1817
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot i. viii. 30 Whereat he vapoured extreamely, shaking his head at the fellows unexperiencednesse.
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II. (at cited word) Unskilfulness.
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