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Callow

noun
/ˈkaləʊ/
Word Frequency: 0.3

Definitions

1.nounA callow young bird.
2.nounA callow or teneral phase of an insect or other arthropod, typically shortly after ecdysis, while the skin still is hardening, the colours have not yet become stable, and as a rule, before the animal is able to move effectively.
3.nounAn alluvial flat.
4.adjectiveUnfledged (of a young bird).
5.adjective(by extension) Immature, lacking in life experience.
"Those three young men are particularly callow youths."
6.adjectiveLacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis); teneral.
7.adjectiveShallow or weak-willed.
8.adjective(of a brick) Unburnt.
9.adjectiveOf land: low-lying and liable to be submerged.
10.adjectiveBald.

Synonyms

unsophisticatednaiveinexperiencedimmaturehairlessbaldglabrousunderhairedbarebaldpatedatrichousclean-shaven

Antonyms

experiencedmature

Rhymes With

sallowshallowhallowtallowhallocommon mallowmarsh mallowrose mallow
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