Inexperienced \In`ex*pe"ri*enced\, a.
Not having experience; unskilled; naive. "Inexperienced
youth." --Cowper.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
inexperienced
adj 1: lacking practical experience or training [ant: experienced]
2: lacking basic knowledge; "how can someone that age be so
ignorant?"; "inexperienced and new to the real world"
[syn: ignorant]
3: lacking experience of life; "a callow youth of seventeen"
[syn: callow, naive, unsophisticated]
WordNet (r) 2.0
106 Moby Thesaurus words for "inexperienced":
a novice at, a stranger to, artless, awkward, befoolable,
blankminded, born yesterday, budding, callow, dewy, disaccustomed,
dumb, empty, empty-headed, foolable, fresh, gauche, green,
green as grass, groping, growing, gullible, ignorant, immature,
impubic, inane, indefensible, inept, inexpert, inexpiable,
ingenuous, innocent, intact, juicy, know-nothing, minor, naive,
nescient, new to, new-fledged, prentice, raw, ripening, rude,
rusty, sappy, simple, strange to, tender, tentative, unaccustomed,
unaccustomed to, unacquainted, unacquainted with, unadult,
unapprized, uncomprehending, unconversant, unconversant with,
underage, undeveloped, unenlightened, unexperienced, unfamiliar,
unfamiliar with, unfledged, unforgivable, unformed, unhabituated,
unhardened, unilluminated, uninformed, uninitiated, uninitiated in,
unintelligent, uninured, unjustifiable, unknowing, unlicked,
unmatured, unmellowed, unpardonable, unposted, unpracticed,
unpracticed in, unripe, unschooled, unseasoned, unskilled,
unskilled in, unsophisticated, unsure, untenable, untrained,
untried, unused, unused to, unversed, unversed in, unwonted,
unworldly, vacuous, vernal, virginal, weaned, young
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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