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Infantile vs Callow - What's the difference?

infantile | callow | Related terms |

Infantile is a related term of callow.


As adjectives the difference between infantile and callow

is that infantile is pertaining to infants while callow is (obsolete) bald.

As a noun callow is

a callow young bird.

infantile

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to infants.
    • infantile paralysis
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  • Childish; immature.

    • Synonyms

    * (childish) puerile

    Derived terms

    * infantilely * infantilize

    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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