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| Main Entry: | callow |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immature |
| Synonyms: | crude, green, guileless, inexperienced, infant, jejune, jellybean, juvenile, kid, low tech, naive, not dry behind ears, puerile, raw, sophomore, tenderfoot, unbaked, unfledged, unripe, unsophisticated, untrained, untried, young |
| Notes: | callow means lacking experience of life, immature - while shallow means lacking depth of intellect, emotion, or knowledge |
| Antonyms: | experienced, initiated, mature, sophisticated |
| Main Entry: | green |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | young, new, blooming |
| Synonyms: | bosky, budding, burgeoning, callow, developing, flourishing, foliate, fresh, grassy, growing, half-formed, immature, infant, juvenile, leafy, lush, maturing, pliable, puerile, pullulating, raw, recent, sprouting, supple, tender, undecayed, undried, unfledged, ungrown, unripe, unseasoned, verdant, verduous, youthful |
| Antonyms: | old, withered |
| Main Entry: | immature |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | young, inexperienced |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, baby, babyish, callow, childish, crude, green*, half-grown, imperfect, infantile, infantine, jejune, juvenile, kid, kidstuff, premature, puerile, raw, sophomoric, tender*, tenderfoot, underdeveloped, undergrown, undeveloped, unfinished, unfledged, unformed, unripe, unseasonable, unseasoned, unsophisticated, untimely, wet behind ears, youthful |
| Antonyms: | adult, developed, experienced, grown, mature, old |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | infant/infantile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very young |
| Synonyms: | baby, babyish, callow, childish, childlike, dawning, developing, early, emergent, green*, growing, immature, infantine, initial, juvenile, kid, naive, nascent, newborn, puerile, tender, unfledged, unripe, weak, youthful |
| Antonyms: | adult, grown-up, mature |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | juvenile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | childish |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, babyish, beardless, blooming, boyish, budding, callow, childlike, developing, formative, fresh, girlish, green, growing, immature, inexperienced, infant, infantile, jejune, junior, kid stuff, milk-fed, naive, pubescent, puerile, teenage, tender, undeveloped, unfledged, unripe, unsophisticated, unweaned, vernal, young, younger, youthful |
| Antonyms: | adult, grown-up, mature |
| Main Entry: | latent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dormant, hidden |
| Synonyms: | abeyant, between the lines, concealed, contained, covert, idle, immature, implied, in abeyance, inactive, inert, inferential, inferred, inherent, inoperative, intrinsic, invisible, involved, lurking, passive, possible, potential, quiescent, rudimentary, secret, sleeping, smoldering, suppressed, suspended, tacit, torpid, underdeveloped, underlying, undeveloped, unexposed, unexpressed, unrealized, unripe, unseen, veiled, vestigial |
| Antonyms: | active, apparent, clear, live, manifest, obvious, open, public |
| Main Entry: | premature |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | earlier in occurrence than anticipated |
| Synonyms: | a bit previous, abortive, early on, embryonic, forward, green*, immature, incomplete, inopportune, overearly, oversoon, precipitate, predeveloped, previous, raw*, soon, unanticipated, undeveloped, unfledged, unripe, untimely |
| Antonyms: | backward, delayed, late, mature, overdue |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | raw |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not cooked, prepared |
| Synonyms: | basic, bloody, callow, coarse, crude, fibrous, fresh, green, hard, immature, impure, native, natural, organic, rough, rough-hewn, rude, unbaked, uncooked, undercooked, underdone, undressed, unfashioned, unformed, unfried, ungraded, unpasteurized, unprepared, unprocessed, unrefined, unripe, unsorted, unstained, untreated |
| Antonyms: | cooked, done, well-done |
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