Callow definition
Lacking adult maturity or experience; immature.
A callow young man.
adjective
Still lacking the feathers needed for flying; unfledged.
adjective
The definition of callow is someone or something immature.
A forty year old man with the maturity level of a fifteen year old is an example of callow.
adjective
Young and inexperienced; immature.
adjective
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Immature, lacking in life experience.
Those three young men are particularly callow youths.
adjective
A callow young bird.
noun
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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.
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun
Singular:
callow
Plural:
callowsAdjective
Base Form:
callow
Comparative:
callower
Superlative:
callowestOrigin of callow
- Middle English calwe bald from Old English calu
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English calwe (“bald”), from Old English calu (“callow, bare, bald”), from Proto-Germanic *kalwaz (“bare, naked, bald”), from Proto-Indo-European *gAlw- (“naked, bald”). Cognate with West Frisian keal (“bald”), Dutch kaal (“bald”), German kahl (“bald”), Russian голый (gólyj, “nude”).
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