Unfledged \Un*fledged"\, a.
Not fledged; not feathered; hence, not fully developed;
immature. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
unfledged
adj 1: (of birds) not yet having developed feathers; "a small
unfledged sparrow on the window sill" [syn: immature]
[ant: fledged]
2: (of an arrow) not equipped with feathers; "shot an unfledged
arrow" [syn: fledgeless, unvaned]
3: young and inexperienced; "a fledgling enterprise"; "a
fledgling skier"; "an unfledged lawyer" [syn: fledgling]
WordNet (r) 2.0
80 Moby Thesaurus words for "unfledged":
a novice at, a stranger to, adolescent, at half cock, budding,
callow, dewy, ever-new, evergreen, firsthand, fledgling, fresh,
green, green as grass, growing, half-baked, half-cocked,
half-grown, ignorant, ill-digested, immature, impubic,
inexperienced, infant, ingenuous, innocent, intact, juicy,
juvenile, maiden, maidenly, minor, naive, neoteric, nestling, new,
new to, new-fledged, original, pristine, raw, ripening, sappy,
sempervirent, tender, unaccustomed to, unacquainted with, unadult,
unbeaten, unconversant, unconversant with, underage, underripe,
undeveloped, unexperienced, unfamiliar with, unformed, ungrown,
unhandled, uninitiated in, unlicked, unmatured, unmellowed,
unpracticed, unpracticed in, unripe, unseasoned, unskilled in,
untouched, untried, untrodden, unused, unused to, unversed,
unversed in, vernal, virgin, virginal, young, youthful
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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