Callow vs Credulous - What's the difference?
callow | credulous |
(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.
Excessively ready to believe things; gullible.
(obsolete) Believed too readily.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between callow and credulous
is that callow is (obsolete) bald while credulous is (obsolete) believed too readily.As adjectives the difference between callow and credulous
is that callow is (obsolete) bald while credulous is excessively ready to believe things; gullible.As a noun callow
is a callow young bird.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.
