callow
Meaning of callow
adjective
- (of a young person) inexperienced and immature.
earnest and callow undergraduates
Old English calu ‘bald’, of West Germanic origin, probably from Latin calvus ‘bald’. This was extended to mean ‘unfledged’, which led to the present sense ‘immature’.
Information about callow
- It is an adjective.
- The plural form of callow is: callows.
- Languages in which callow is used:
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Hyphenation of callow
cal-low
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- callow is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
callow synonyms
Meaning fledgling:
Meaning having or showing an emotional or intellectual development appropriate to someone younger:
Meaning having little knowledge or experience of a particular thing:
Meaning (of a person) natural and unaffected; innocent:
Meaning (of a person) inexperienced or naive:
Meaning new to an activity or job and therefore lacking experience or skill:
Meaning (of food) not flavoured with salt, pepper, or other spices:
Meaning not having been trained in a particular skill:
Meaning not yet tested to discover quality or reliability; inexperienced:
Meaning childish; immature:
Meaning relating to or characteristic of adolescence:
Meaning naive, simplistic, and superficial:
Meaning not guilty of a crime or offence:
Meaning devoid of guile; innocent and without deception:
Meaning without guile or deception:
Meaning (of a person) having little awareness of the practicalities of life; unmotivated by material considerations:
Meaning lacking refined worldly knowledge or tastes:
callow antonyms
Meaning fully developed physically; full-grown:
Meaning having gained knowledge or skill in a particular field over time:
Meaning having, revealing, or involving a great deal of worldly experience and knowledge of fashion and culture:
Words that rhyme with callow
Allhallow, allow, ballow, behallow, betallow, disallow, dishallow, encallow, enhallow, enwallow, fallow, gallow, hallow, mackallow, mallow, marshmallow, preallow, preswallow, reallow, refallow, rehallow, reswallow, rewallow, sallow, shallow, swallow, tallow, twifallow, unallow, uncallow, unhallow, unsallow, upswallow, wallow, waxmallow, yallow, Bellow, Fellow, Longfellow, Oddfellow, Rockafellow, Yellow, bedfellow, bellow, benchfellow, blackfellow, boonfellow, chamberfellow, clanfellow, classfellow
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