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   callow

   /ˈkaləʊ/

   adjective

   • 1. (of a young person) inexperienced and immature: "earnest and callow undergraduates"

   Word Origin Old Englishcalu ‘bald’, of West Germanic origin, probably from Latin calvus ‘bald’. This was extended to mean ‘unfledged’, which led to the present sense ‘immature’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. callowly adverb
   • 2. callowness noun

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   What does Callow mean?

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   What is a callow young person?

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   What is a callow youth?

   • a callow youth. (of a young bird) featherless; unfledged. a recently hatched worker ant. rare. That was what I sought when, as a callow and hormonal high school student, I first discovered Lawrence. Anyone going through Prozac Nation can certainly find plenty of callow moments when Wurtzel does whine.

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   What is a callow bird?

   • By the 17th century, callow had come to mean "without feathers" and was applied to young birds not yet ready for flight. The term was also used for those who hadn't yet spread their wings in a figurative sense.

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   The meaning of CALLOW is lacking adult sophistication : immature. How to use callow in a sentence. The Connection Between Callow and Baldness

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   Someone, especially a young person, who is callow behaves in a way that shows they have little experience, confidence, or judgment: Mark was just a callow youth of 16 when he arrived in Paris. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Naive & trusting. be easy game/meat idiom. be easy prey idiom. be wet behind the ears idiom.

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   Callow definition: immature or inexperienced. See examples of CALLOW used in a sentence.

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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. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.

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   If you're a rookie or new to something, you could be described as callow — like callow freshmen in high school or the callow receptionist who can't figure out how to transfer a call.

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