neophyte
Origin of neophyte
1Other words for neophyte
Other words from neophyte
- ne·o·phyt·ic [nee-uh-fit-ik], /ˌni əˈfɪt ɪk/, ne·o·phyt·ish [nee-uh-fahy-tish], /ˈni əˌfaɪ tɪʃ/, adjective
- ne·o·phyt·ism [nee-uh-fahy-tiz-uhm], /ˈni ə faɪˌtɪz əm/, noun
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How to use neophyte in a sentence
At Hu’s direction, the neophyte spies started building a network.
Operation Fox Hunt: How China Exports Repression Using a Network of Spies Hidden in Plain Sight | by Sebastian Rotella and Kirsten Berg | July 22, 2021 | ProPublicaSummarizing all of them is all but impossible for a franchise neophyte, and yet you never have to know all of this information to enjoy whatever movie you’re sitting down to watch.
The rise and rise and rise of the Fast & Furious franchise | Emily VanDerWerff | June 25, 2021 | VoxTypically, teams with such a wide age disparity in their backcourt have had either a young star and a caretaker, or an older star and a precocious neophyte.
Chris Paul Found The Perfect Backcourt Partner In Devin Booker | Jared Dubin | June 16, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightA political neophyte, Tikhanovskaya packed huge rallies, mobilizing thousands to march in protest, before fleeing last August across the border into Vilnius, where she now lives with her two children.
Belarus’s Exiled Opposition Leader Says President Lukashenko Is Operating With ‘Impunity’ After Journalist Arrest | Vivienne Walt | May 24, 2021 | TimeMore and more, Nichols sought out talented people with complementary skills, so that even as a neophyte film director, his movies looked gorgeous, thanks to experienced craftspeople behind the scenes.
We give geniuses license to be jerks. Mike Nichols tried not to be anyhow. | Emily VanDerWerff | April 2, 2021 | Vox
For the aficionado or the neophyte, Comics is a useful overview of a richly creative period in a burgeoning art.
Reagan is a political neophyte in a fairly conventional campaign for governor of California.
How LBJ and Reagan Wrecked Our Faith in Government | Scott Porch | October 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSoutherland was a political neophyte who owned a string of funeral homes when he won his seat in 2010.
The other thing the film got wrong was the premise that David was a neophyte, better suited for interviewing the Bee Gees.
I will confess, with some shame, that I am a Saunders neophyte.
Assarac smiled with the good-humoured superiority of an adept condescending to the crude intelligence of a neophyte.
Sarchedon | G. J. (George John) Whyte-MelvilleBeladon looked on his chief with the admiration of a neophyte for some grand professor of his art.
Sarchedon | G. J. (George John) Whyte-MelvilleSelina, in the drawing-room, diligently fingered and classed brown-black pressed weeds of her neophyte's botany-folios.
Lord Ormont and his Aminta, Complete | George Meredith"Otherwise I should have preferred starving to coming here," answered the laconic neophyte.
Night and Morning, Complete | Edward Bulwer-LyttonBut if, on the one hand, we had lost the neophyte's fire, we had perhaps gained a little in tolerance.
The Heroic Record of the British Navy | Archibald Hurd
British Dictionary definitions for neophyte
/ (ˈniːəʊˌfaɪt) /
a person newly converted to a religious faith
RC Church a novice in a religious order
a novice or beginner
Origin of neophyte
1Derived forms of neophyte
- neophytic (ˌniːəʊˈfɪtɪk), adjective
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