Callow vs Unaccustomed - What's the difference?
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(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.
Not prepared by life experience to an event or thing, not accustomed.
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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)- 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.
Noun
Anagrams
*unaccustomed
English
Adjective
(en adjective)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.