fledgling, unfledged, callow
(adjective) young and inexperienced; “a fledgling enterprise”; “a fledgling skier”; “an unfledged lawyer”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
callow (comparative callower or more callow, superlative callowest or most callow)
Unfledged (of a young bird).
(by extension) Immature, lacking in life experience.
Antonyms: mature, experienced
Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis); teneral.
Shallow or weak-willed.
(of a brick) Unburnt.
Of land: low-lying and liable to be submerged.
(obsolete) Bald.
callow (countable and uncountable, plural callows)
A callow young bird.
A 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.
An alluvial flat.
• low-cal
Callow (plural Callows)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Callow is the 22026th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1177 individuals. Callow is most common among White (94.65%) individuals.
• low-cal
Source: Wiktionary
Cal"low, a. Etym: [OE. calewe, calu, bald, AS. calu; akin to D. kaal, OHG. chalo, G. Kuhl; cf. L. calvus.]
1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden.
2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play [1675].
Cal*low", n. (Zoöl.) Etym: [Named from its note.]
Definition: A kind of duck. See Old squaw.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
Espresso is both a coffee beverage and a brewing method that originated in Italy. When making an espresso, a small amount of nearly boiling water under pressure forces through finely-ground coffee beans. It has more caffeine per unit volume than most coffee beverages. Its smaller serving size will take three shots to equal a mug of standard brewed coffee.
