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Another word for callow

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      1. Not fully grown or developed:
      2. Marked by or suggesting a lack of normal maturity:
      3. An immature animal; a juvenile.
      1. The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between yellow and blue, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 490 to 570 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation and whose hue is that of the emerald or somewhat less yellow than that of growing grass; one of the additive or light primaries; one of the psychological primary hues.
      2. Something green in color.
      3. The branches and leaves of plants used for decoration.
      1. Being in an early period of life, development, or growth.
      2. Newly begun or formed; not advanced:
      3. Relating to, typical of, or suggestive of youth or early life:
      1. Immature, especially in being silly or trivial; childish.
      2. Belonging to childhood; juvenile.
    See also:

    young

    naive

    inexperienced

    ignorant

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Sentence Examples

  • They are not callow like the young of most birds, but more perfectly developed and precocious even than chickens.

  • Untraveled, naive, even a little callow, we are not surprised to discover the heart of a hero just waiting to be stirred to action.

  • A rather beefy looking drummer, no callow youth, this.

  • callow youth with a singular vision?

  • callow grammar school boy back in the seventies?

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