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Untried vs Callow - What's the difference?

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Untried is a related term of callow.


As adjectives the difference between untried and callow

is that untried is not yet tried or tested; unknown while callow is (obsolete) bald.

As a noun callow is

a callow young bird.

untried

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Not yet tried or tested; unknown.
  • :The new guy was inexperienced and untried .

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    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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