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单词 callow
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callow

(kæloʊ)
adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
A callow young person has very little experience or knowledge of the way they should behave as an adult.
...a callow youth.
Synonyms: inexperienced, juvenile, naïve, immature More Synonyms of callow

callow in British English

(ˈkæləʊ)
adjective
1. 
lacking experience of life; immature
2.  rare
(of a young bird) unfledged and usually lacking feathers
Derived forms
callowness (ˈcallowness)
noun
Word origin
Old English calu; related to Old High German kalo, Old Slavonic golú bare, naked, Lithuanian galva head, Latin calvus bald

Callow in British English

(ˈkæləʊ)
noun
Simon. born 1949, British actor and theatre director

callow in American English

(ˈkæloʊ)
adjective
1. 
still lacking the feathers needed for flying; unfledged
2. 
young and inexperienced; immature
Derived forms
callowness (ˈcallowness)
noun
Word origin
ME calwe < OE calu, bare, bald < IE base *gal-, bald, naked > L calvus, bald, Czech holý, naked, Ger kahl, bald

Examples of 'callow' in a sentence
callow

Voters are fed up with callow youths who are products of the political hothouse but lack life experience.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
They are too young and callow.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The beginning and end of a reign; a journey from callow youth to protective grande dame.
Christianity Today (2000)
It is so much more profound than dewy, callow youth.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
We were just callow youths, but he made a huge effort to invite us to his parties.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Too many Australians remembered the callow youth who struggled here four years ago and ignored his improvement since.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
He turned a callow youth, pale and hasty, into the most feared striker in the world.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
(adjective) 
Definition
young and inexperienced
Although he's 25, he still behaves like a callow youth in some ways.
Synonyms
inexperienced
They are inexperienced when it comes to decorating.
juvenile
As he gets older he becomes more juvenile.
naïve
immature
You're just being childish and immature.
raw
He is still raw but his potential shows.
untried
green
He was a young lad, very green and immature.
unsophisticated
He was quite unsophisticated in the ways of the world.
puerile
puerile schoolboy humour
guileless
jejune (formal)
They were of great service in correcting my jejune generalizations.
unfledged
new-hatched, unfledged courage

Additional synonyms

in the sense of green
Definition
inexperienced or gullible
He was a young lad, very green and immature.
Synonyms
inexperienced,
new,
innocent,
raw,
naive,
ignorant,
immature,
gullible,
callow,
untrained,
unsophisticated,
credulous,
ingenuous,
unpolished,
wet behind the ears (informal),
inexpert,
unpractised,
unversed
in the sense of immature
Definition
lacking wisdom, insight, or stability because of youth
You're just being childish and immature.
Synonyms
childish,
juvenile,
infantile,
puerile,
callow,
babyish,
wet behind the ears (informal),
jejune
in the sense of jejune
Definition
simple and unsophisticated
They were of great service in correcting my jejune generalizations.
Synonyms
simple,
silly,
juvenile,
naive,
pointless,
childish,
immature,
senseless,
unsophisticated,
puerile

Nearby words of
callow

  • callous
  • callously
  • callousness
  • callow
  • callowness
  • calm
  • calmly

Synonyms of 'callow'

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