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Experienced vs Rookie - What's the difference?

experienced | rookie |

As adjectives the difference between experienced and rookie

is that experienced is having experience and skill in a subject while rookie is non-professional; amateur.

As a verb experienced

is past participle of lang=en.

As a noun rookie is

an inexperienced recruit, especially in the police or armed forces.

experienced

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having experience and skill in a subject.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=20 citation , passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.}}
  • Experient.

    • Antonyms

    * inexperienced * green

    Verb

    (head)

    • rookie

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An inexperienced recruit, especially in the police or armed forces.
  • A novice.
  • An athlete either new to the sport or to a team or in his first year of professional competition, especially said of baseball, basketball, hockey and American football players.
  • (British) A type of firecracker, used by farmers to scare rooks.

    • Synonyms

    * beginner * newbie, new boy * noob * tyro * novice * See also

    Adjective

    (-)
  • non-professional; amateur
    • The game was going well until I made that rookie mistake.
    (amateur)

    See also

    * naive * rooky (homophone)