Callow vs Rudimentary - What's the difference?

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Callow is a related term of rudimentary.

As adjectives the difference between callow and rudimentary

is that callow is (obsolete) bald while rudimentary is of or relating to one or more rudiments.

As a noun callow

is a callow young bird.

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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rudimentary

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

of or relating to one or more rudiments

I have only a rudimentary grasp of chemistry .

Basic; minimal; with less than, or only the minimum, necessary.

His grasp of rudimentary English allowed him at least to do the shopping .

His rudimentary driving skills meant that he was a danger on the road .