Callow

Definition: Callow

Callow

Adjective

1. Lacking experience of life; "a callow youth of seventeen".

Date "callow" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Synonyms: Callow

Synonyms: inexperienced (adj), naive (adj), unsophisticated (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Divestment	Adjective: divested; Verb: bare, naked, nude; undressed, undraped; denuded; exposed; in dishabille; bald, threadbare, ragged, callow, roofless.
Infant	Child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin; bantling, bratling; elf. youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master. scion; sap, seedling; tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow; codlin,codling; foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten; lamb, lambkin; aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle.
	Adjective: infantine, infantile; puerile; boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish; baby; newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow.
Youth	Adjective: young, youthful, juvenile, green, callow, budding, sappy, puisne, beardless, under age, in one's teens; in statu pupillari; younger, junior; hebetic, unfledged.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Callow

English words defined with "callow": inexperienced ♦ naive ♦ Old squaw ♦ unsophisticated. (references)

Specialty definitions using "callow": callow adult, Callow flotation cell, Callow screen ♦ sloughing-off cone. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Callow, Brave, and True : A Gospel of Civil War Youth (reference) Rock : together with references to Abberley, Alveley, Astley, Bewdley, Bliss Gate, Bredwardine, Buckeridge, Callow Hill, Chaddesley Corbett, Cleobury Mortimer, Clows Top, Droitwich, Finstall, Furnace Mill, Gorst Hill, Mitre Oak, Neen Sollars, Pensax, Ribb (reference) The Callow Pit Coffer. (reference) William Callow (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	They are not callow like the young of most birds, but more perfectly developed and precocious even than chickens.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Callow" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Callow" is used about 71 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	71	39,674

The following table summarizes the usage of "callow" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Callow	Last name	400	23,170
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expressions using "callow": callow adult ♦ callow youth. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "callow"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		që nuk i kanë dalë puplat, i papërvojë (greener, half-baked, inexperienced, raw, sucking, unexperienced, unpractical, unpractised, unschooled, unskilled, unsophisticated, unversed), axhami (fledgeling, fledgling). (various references)

Arabic		‏لا خبرة له, ‏قليل الخبرة (amateurish, green, raw), ‏غر (artless, calf's, child, decoy, half-witted, inexperienced, naive, raw, rude, stranger, unskilled, young). (various references)

Bulgarian		гол (bald, bare, goal, harsh, naked, nude, raw, unfledged, ungloved), неопитен (coltish, fresh, green, inexpert, maiden, raw, sucking, unexperienced, unpractised, unschooled, unseasoned, unsophisticated, untutored, unversed, unworldly, verdant, young), без перушина. (various references)

Chinese		羽毛未丰. (various references)

Czech		neopeřený. (various references)

Danish		ufaerdig imago (callow adult, teneral adult). (various references)

Farsi		جوجه ای که هنوزپردرنیاورده , شخص بی تجربه وناشی . (various references)

French		sans expérience, novice, inexpérimenté. (various references)

German		ungefiedert (fledgeless, squab, unfledged), nackt (bare, blunt, buff, naked, nakedly, nude, nudely, plain, raw, stark). (various references)

Greek		πρωτόβγαλτοσ, άπειροσ (green, greenhorn, inexperienced, inexpert, infinite, innumerable, tenderfoot, unpracticed, unpractised, unskilled, unversed, verdant), άπτεροσ (apterous, featherless, wingless), αδαήσ (green, ignoranta, skilless). (various references)

Hebrew		טירון (greenhorn, neophyte, novice, tyro, youngster). (various references)

Hungarian		tapasztalatlan (freshwater, incognizant, inexperienced, unacquainted, unexperienced, unfledged, unimproved, unpractised, unseasoned, verdant). (various references)

Indonesian		tak berbulu. (various references)

Italian		inesperto (fresh, green, inexperienced, inexpert, raw, unskilled), immaturo (crude, half-baked, immature, juvenile, unripe, untimely), imberbe. (various references)

Manx		gyn oayllys (callow of youth), gyn keeayl (callow of youth), bog (callow of youth, easy, flabby, limp, loose, loose of cough, moist, pulpy, slack, soft, soft-hearted, tender). (various references)

Pig Latin		allowcay.(various references)

Portuguese		ingénuo (candid, dupe, fool, green, gullible, ingenuity, ingenuous, naive, naivety, non payment, outage, shirt-sleeve, simple, unsophisticated, unsuspicious, verdant), inexperiente (artless, fresh, green, half-baked, inexperienced, muff, out and out, raw, shirt-sleeve, sucking, unpractised, unskilful, unskilled, unsophisticated, untrained, verdant, young), implume (squab), imberbe (smooth-faced, unbearded), bisonho (untrained). (various references)

Romanian		crud (brutal, brutally, callous, crude, cruel, cruelly, cut throat, dire, foully, gory, green, hard, harsh, immature, merciless, raw, ruthless, sanguinary, savage, savagely, sodden, sour, truculent, unfeeling, violent, violently, wolfish, young), tânãr şi fãrã experienţã (young), novice (apprentice, beginner, colt, cub, entrant, fledgeling, greenhorn, innocent, intrant, neophyte, new, novice, probationer, recruit, tenderfoot, tiro, tyro, untried), neisprãvit (blockhead, dolt, dunce, dunderhead, endless, rotter, silly, undergrown, unfinished), golaş (barren, featherless, fledgeless, hairless, naked, squab), fãrã pene (featherless, fledgeless, squab). (various references)

Russian		неопытный (fresh, green, half-baked, inexperienced, inexpert, new, sucking, unexperienced, uninitiated, unpractised, unversed), неоперившийся (unfledged). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nezreo (immature, soporific, unripe, unseasoned, verdant), neiskusan (inexperienced, inexpert, unexperienced, unpractised, unversed, versed: not versed, young), bez perija. (various references)

Spanish		novado, inmaduro (adolescent, immature, impuberal, not ripe, unripe), inexperto (amateurish, inexperienced, inexpert, unskilful, unskilled, unskillful, untrained), imberbe (beardless). (various references)

Swedish		ofjädrad, grön (fresh, grassy, green, leafy, sucking, verdant). (various references)

Turkish		toy (beardless, chicken, colt, dewy-eyed, green, greenhorn, inapt, inexperienced, naïve, punk, raw, runnynose, tenderfoot, unworldly, verdant), tecrübesiz (guiltless, inexperienced, simple minded, simple-hearted, unbaked, unpracticed, unpractised, untrained, unversed, verdant), tüyleri bitmemiş, acemi (apprentice, beginner, bungler, catechumen, clumsy, colt, cub, dabster, green, greenhorn, guiltless, half-baked, inept, inexperienced, inexperienced hand, inexpert, jackaroo, johnny-come-lately, learner, neophyte, new, novice, Prentice, punk, raw, recruit, runnynose, simple, stooge, strange, stranger, sucking, tenderfoot, tiro, trainee, tyro, unbaked, unfledged, unseasoned, unskilled, untrained, unversed, young, young in one's job). (various references)

Ukranian		голий (bald, bare, bleak, desert, naked, nude, stark), неоперений (squab), незрілий (childish, embryonic, green, half-baked, immature, nascent, not ripe, puerile, under age, verdant), недосвідчений (boyish, inexperienced, inexpert, new, non-skilled, unpractised, young), низина (bottom, hollow, lowland), болотистий луг, поверхневий шар. (various references)

Vietnamese		trẻ măng, trũng, đ�"ng trũng. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "callow": callower, callowest, callowness, callownesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Callow" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caillou, calaloo, caldo, Caldow, calgon, calloo, Callooh, callop, callos, Callot, callowly, Callows, callum, calo, calob, caloe, Caloo, Calot, calow, Caplow, Catlow, cillo, Ciullo, Clemow, clulow, Collco, Cullom, Dallow, Kaplow, Kellow. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "callow" (pronounced ka"lō)
3	-a" l ō	Hallow, mallow, shallow, tallow.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-l-l-o-w"
	-1 letter: allow, local.
	-2 letters: alow, awol, call, calo, claw, coal, cola, cowl, loca, olla, wall.
	-3 letters: all, awl, caw, col, cow, lac, law, low, oca, owl.
	-4 letters: al, aw, la, lo, ow, wo.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-l-l-o-w"
	+2 letters: callower, coleslaw.
	+3 letters: allowance, callowest, coleslaws.
	+4 letters: allowanced, allowances, callowness, codswallop, pillowcase.
	+5 letters: allowancing, cauliflower, codswallops, pillowcases.
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