Boyish vs Callow - What's the difference?
boyish | callow | Synonyms |
Like a stereotypical boy in appearance or demeanor.
(obsolete) Bald.
Unfledged (of a young bird).
* Dryden
Immature, lacking in life experience.
Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis). Teneral.
Shallow or weak-willed.
Unburnt (of a brick)
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.
Boyish is a synonym of callow.
As adjectives the difference between boyish and callow
is that boyish is like a stereotypical boy in appearance or demeanor while callow is (obsolete) bald.As a noun callow is
a callow young bird.boyish
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- People disliked his boyish and juvenile behaviour.
- Her boyish figure belied her femininity.
callow
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- And in the leafy summit spy'd a nest, / Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed.
- Those three young men are particularly callow youths.
