callow
adjective
noun
Origin of callow
Synonyms for callow
Antonyms for callow
Related Words for callow
inexperienced, crude, green, guileless, infant, jejune, juvenile, kid, naive, puerile, raw, tenderfoot, unripe, unsophisticated, untrained, untried, young, jellybean, sophomore, unfledgedExamples from the Web for callow
Contemporary Examples of callow
Anyone going through Prozac Nation can certainly find plenty of callow moments when Wurtzel does whine.
But now that veneer is gone, and what remains is a callow man-child at odds with himself.
What's Happened to Don Draper? Why Everyone’s Favorite ‘Mad Men’ Stud Needs His Mojo BackLizzie Crocker
April 16, 2014
This is clearly not a boast; it seems, rather, a shamed admission of petty, callow cruelty.
The last thing we should do is help the callow—and dangerous—Kim continue his rule.
In this callow atmosphere, Brooke Astor would never be an icon, but she is remembered with nostalgia.
Brooke Astor’s Estate Is Auctioned, and a Friend Recalls Her FondlyBarbara Goldsmith
September 29, 2012
Historical Examples of callow
The 87 Medium, who is at first indifferent, finally warns her callow child.
The Book of KhalidAmeen Rihani
"There speaks your callow inexperience," said he, with a pitying smile.
The Tavern KnightRafael Sabatini
But even in those days as a callow, trusting youth, he'd been smarter than Boswell.
Zero DataCharles Saphro
With bird nicknames may be mentioned Callow, unfledged, cognate with Lat.
The Romance of NamesErnest Weekley
Culpepper sprang, a flash of green, straight at the callow boy.
Privy SealFord Madox Ford