| Front | Callow (adjective) |
|---|---|
| Back | Immature or inexperienced; lacking adult sophistication. Callow is used to describe people who don’t have much life experience or don’t know how to behave like adults, as in the phrase callow youth. Synonyms for callow include immature, untried, green, raw, unfledged, and unripened Callow comes from the Old English word calu, meaning “bare, bald,” which was sometimes applied to young birds with no feathers. |
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