Callow vs Immature - What's the difference?
callow | immature |
(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 fully formed or developed, unripe, not mature.
Silly or childish in behavior, not mature.
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As adjectives the difference between callow and immature
is that callow is (obsolete) bald while immature is not fully formed or developed, unripe, not mature.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
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*immature
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- You're only young once, but you can be immature the rest of your life.
- The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.