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Callow vs Fledgling - What's the difference?

callow | fledgling |

As adjectives the difference between callow and fledgling

is that callow is (obsolete) bald while fledgling is untried or inexperienced.

As nouns the difference between callow and fledgling

is that callow is a callow young bird while fledgling is (literally) a young bird which has just developed its flight feathers (notably wings).

callow

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • (obsolete) Bald.
  • Unfledged (of a young bird).
  • * Dryden
    • And in the leafy summit spy'd a nest, / Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed.
  • Immature, lacking in life experience.
    • Those three young men are particularly callow youths.
  • 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)

    • Noun

  • 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.

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    fledgling

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Untried or inexperienced.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (literally) A young bird which has just developed its flight feathers (notably wings).
  • (figuratively) An immature, naïve and/or inexperienced person.

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