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Callow vs Unaccustomed - What's the difference?

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Callow is a related term of unaccustomed.


As adjectives the difference between callow and unaccustomed

is that callow is (obsolete) bald while unaccustomed is not prepared by life experience to an event or thing, not accustomed.

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.
  • Anagrams

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    unaccustomed

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not prepared by life experience to an event or thing, not accustomed.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood.}}
    He is unaccustomed to the cold.

    Derived terms

    * unaccustomedly * unaccustomedness