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Rookie vs Rookielike - What's the difference?

rookie | rookielike |

As adjectives the difference between rookie and rookielike

is that rookie is non-professional; amateur while rookielike is characteristic of a rookie; amateurish, naive.

As a noun rookie

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

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)

    rookielike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Characteristic of a rookie; amateurish, naive.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=August 19, author=Karen Crouse, title=No Shortage of Culprits in Meltdown by the Jets, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Chad Pennington , the Jets’ usually cool-headed veteran quarterback, made two rookielike mistakes in the first quarter, which resulted in Vikings scores. }}