callow

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see also: Callow

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Pronunciation

• (America) IPA: /ˈkæloʊ/
• (British) IPA: /ˈkaləʊ/

Adjective

callow (comparative callower, superlative callowest)

1. Unfledged (of a young bird).
   • (translator), Ovid, Book XII in Metamorphoses

     And in the leafy summit spy'd a nest, / Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed.

2. (by extension) Immature, lacking in life experience.

   Antonyms: mature, experienced

   Those three young men are particularly callow youths.

3. Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis); teneral.
4. Shallow or weak-willed.
5. (of a brick) Unburnt.
6. Of land: low-lying and liable to be submerged.
7. (obsolete) Bald.

Translations

• German: ungefiedert
• Russian: неоперившийся

Translations

• German: unerfahren, unreif, grün
• Russian: незре́лый

Noun

callow

1. A callow young bird.
2. 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.
3. An alluvial flat.

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Callow

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Proper noun

1. Surname

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