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Definitions: Inexperienced |
InexperiencedAdjective1. Lacking practical experience or training. 2. Lacking basic knowledge; "how can someone that age be so ignorant?"; "inexperienced and new to the real world". 3. Lacking experience of life; "a callow youth of seventeen". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "inexperienced" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Medicine | Used to describe an individual who has never taken a certain drug or class of drugs(e. g. , AZT-naive, antiretroviral-naive), or to refer to an undifferentiated immune system cell. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: InexperiencedSynonyms: callow (adj), ignorant (adj), naive (adj), unsophisticated (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: experienced (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Unskillfulness | Inapt, unapt; inhabile; untractable, unteachable; giddy; (inattentive); inconsiderate; (neglectful); stupid; inactive; incompetent; unqualified, disqualified, ill-qualified; unfit; quackish; raw, green, inexperienced, rusty, out of practice. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Inexperienced |
| English words defined with "inexperienced": blackguard, buck fever ♦ cub ♦ Fair-weather sailor, fledgling, Fresh way, Friarly ♦ greenhorn, guy ♦ inexperienced person ♦ jest at ♦ landlubber, landlubberly, landsman, laugh at, lubber, lubberly ♦ make fun ♦ Neocracy ♦ poke fun, pons asinorum, pup, puppy ♦ raw recruit, rib, ridicule, rookie ♦ Simple obligation, stall ♦ tenderfoot ♦ Unexperienced, Unexperient, unfledged, Untraded ♦ youth. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "inexperienced": CENTRAL-OFFICE-OPERATOR SUPERVISOR ♦ GREENHEAD ♦ hot rock ♦ Mongolian Hordes technique ♦ newy ♦ Semidetached Mode, SUPERVISOR, ESTERS-AND-EMULSIFIERS ♦ Zeal. (references) |
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Henry David Thoreau | Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced. |
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Health | Results from these methods, however, can be inaccurate if done by an inexperienced person or on someone with severe obesity. (references) | |
Business | However, the current defense trade sector is struggling with a legacy of state control, which includes inefficient production methods and inexperienced management. (references) | |
Economic History | Tanzania | Finally, it provides protection to American suppliers inexperienced in Tanzanian business practices. (references) |
Russia | Banks still perceive commercial lending as risky, and some banks are inexperienced with assessing credit risk. (references) | |
Czech Rep | The legal system recognizes preserved interests in property but due to inexperienced and overburdened courts, enforcement of these rights may be slow in practice. (references) | |
Human Rights | Macau | The judiciary is relatively inexperienced (the first law school opened in the early 1990's), and the lack of locally trained lawyers is a serious impediment to preservation of an independent judiciary and the overall development of the legal system. (references) |
Croatia | The greatest problems facing the judiciary are outmoded procedural codes and court rules, inexperienced judges and staff, bureaucratic inefficiencies, and funding shortfalls, which have created a massive backlog of over 1 million cases, some dating back 30 years or more. (references) | |
Russia | This tendency commonly is attributed to stressful conditions throughout the armed forces--for example, degrading and substandard living conditions persist throughout the armed forces--and to the widespread placement of inexperienced reserve officers, on active duty for 2 years, in primary troop leadership positions. (references) | |
Political Economy | Haiti | The SIU is no longer ill equipped and inexperienced; however, it lacks a mandate from the country's political leaders and is largely defunct. (references) |
Albania | The Constitution provides for an independent judiciary; however, the judiciary remained hampered by a lack of resources and inexperienced and untrained personnel and was subject to political pressure, intimidation, and widespread corruption that weakened its ability to function independently and efficiently. (references) | |
Political Rights | Mali | The new administrators often are inexperienced and undereducated. (references) |
Trade | Norway | However, with more EEA regulations coming, it will probably gradually become more complicated for inexperienced U.S. exporters to Norway who do not have agents, since agents can more easily keep abreast of rule changes. (references) |
Travel | Russia | While many residents of Moscow and St. Petersburg flag private "gypsy cabs" for rides, this is a riskier form of transport that is better avoided by the inexperienced. (references) |
Women | Mexico | Many police also are inexperienced in these areas and unfamiliar with appropriate investigative techniques, although some have received training on these issues. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ZEAL, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth before a sprawl. When Zeal sought Gratitude for his reward He went away exclaiming: "O my Lord!" "What do you want?" the Lord asked, bending down. "An ointment for my cracked and bleeding crown." Jum Coople |
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| "Inexperienced" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Inexperienced" is used about 500 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% | 500 | 12,043 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "inexperienced": inexperienced hand ♦ inexperienced person. 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
inexperienced trainer | 78 |
inexperienced | 9 |
girl inexperienced | 4 |
girls.com inexperienced | 2 |
inexperienced sex | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "inexperienced"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i papërvojë (callow, greener, half-baked, raw, sucking, unexperienced, unpractical, unpractised, unschooled, unskilled, unsophisticated, unversed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قليل التجربة, غير حكيم (impolitic, imprudent, indiscreet, injudicious, unadvised, unwise, weak), غير حاذق (inexpert), غير خبير (amateurish, inexpert), غر (artless, calf's, callow, child, decoy, half-witted, naive, raw, rude, stranger, unskilled, young). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 蝉不知雪, '"驗 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nezkušený (green, raw, unseasoned, unskillful, unworldly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | behandlingsnaiv (naive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | onervaren, groen (fresh, green, wet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | sensperta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hoitamaton (naive, uncared for, unkempt, unkept, weed-grown). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | inexpérimenté, novice (incipient user), naïf (ingenuous), manquant d'expérience. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unerfahren (inerxpertly, inexpert, raw, unacquainted, unexperienced, unfledged, unseasoned, unskilled, unversedly, young), unbewandert. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παρθένος (maiden, naive, virgin), άπειροσ (callow, green, greenhorn, inexpert, infinite, innumerable, tenderfoot, unpracticed, unpractised, unskilled, unversed, verdant), αμάθητοσ (not learnt, strange to). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לא מ וס", חסר סיון (raw). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tapasztalatlan (callow, freshwater, incognizant, unacquainted, unexperienced, unfledged, unimproved, unpractised, unseasoned, verdant), járatlan (inexpert, not versed in, pathless, untrodden, unversed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tak berpengalaman. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | inesperto (callow, fresh, green, inexpert, raw, unskilled), sprovveduto (unprepared), senza eperienza, novellino (abecedarian, beginner, fresh, freshly, green, greenhorn, recruit, young, youthfully), naive (naive), maldestro (all thumbs, awkward, clumsy, gauche, ham-fisted, heavy-handed, ill at ease, inexpert, maladroit, unhandy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | '臭い (grassy-smelling, immature), 'い (blue, green, pale, unripe), 'い (blue, green, pale, unripe), 碧い (blue, green, pale, unripe), 未熟 (immature, inexperience, raw, unripeness, unskilled), 不馴れ (unfamiliar), 世事に疎い (knowing but little of the world, unrealistic), 不束 (incompetent, rude, stupid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ふなれ (inexperience, lack of experience, unfamiliar, unfamiliarity), ふつつか (incompetent, rude, stupid), せじにうとい (knowing but little of the world, unrealistic), あおくさい (grassy-smelling, immature), あおい (blue, green, hollyhock, pale, unripe), みじゅく (immature, inexperience, raw, unripeness, unskilled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | neuchliaghtit rish (unaccustomed, unaccustomed of person). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | uerfaren (fresh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | inexperienceday inexperiente (artless, callow, fresh, green, half-baked, muff, out and out, raw, shirt-sleeve, sucking, unpractised, unskilful, unskilled, unsophisticated, untrained, verdant, young), inexperiência (greenness, rawness, verdancy), principiante (abecedarian, beginner, beginning, colt, dogface, incipient, incipient user, neophyte, neoplasm, novice, recruit, tiro, tyro), pouco experimentado. (various references) nepriceput (blockhead, illiterate, incapable, inefficient, inexpert, novice, silly, slouch, unskilful, unskilled), lipsit de experienţã. (various references) неопытный (callow, fresh, green, half-baked, inexpert, new, sucking, unexperienced, uninitiated, unpractised, unversed). (various references) neiskusan (callow, inexpert, unexperienced, unpractised, unversed, versed: not versed, young). (various references) inexperto (amateurish, callow, inexpert, unskilful, unskilled, unskillful, untrained). (various references) oerfaren (callow, coltish, fresh, freshwater, green, inexpert, unexperience, unpractised, unskilled). (various references) toy (beardless, callow, chicken, colt, dewy-eyed, green, greenhorn, inapt, naïve, punk, raw, runnynose, tenderfoot, unworldly, verdant), tecrübesiz (callow, guiltless, simple minded, simple-hearted, unbaked, unpracticed, unpractised, untrained, unversed, verdant), deneyimsiz (half-baked, illiterate, inexpert, raw, unpracticed, unpractised, unskilled, unsophisticated), acemi (apprentice, beginner, bungler, callow, catechumen, clumsy, colt, cub, dabster, green, greenhorn, guiltless, half-baked, inept, 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), acemí (beginner, novice). (various references) jahyl (ignorant, uneducated). (various references) недосвідчений (boyish, callow, inexpert, new, non-skilled, unpractised, young). (various references) thiếu kinh nghiệm (coltish, unexperienced, verdant). (various references) amhrofiadol. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | advena, advenae, advenam, advenarum, advenas, advenis, inperitos, inperitus, novus. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | anaiwyâstô. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Inexperienced" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: inexperinced. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "inexperienced" (pronounced i'nikspi"rēunst) |
| 11 | -i k s p i" r ē u n s t | experienced. |
| 4 | -u n s t | balanced, countenanced, counterbalanced, distanced, evidenced, inconvenienced, influenced, licensed, referenced, sentenced, silenced, unbalanced, unlicensed. |
| 3 | -n s t | advanced, against, announced, bounced, commenced, condensed, convinced, danced, denounced, dispensed, enhanced, ensconced, entranced, evinced, fenced, financed, glanced, incensed, minced, mispronounced, nuanced, pounced, pronounced, refinanced, renounced, sensed, trounced, unannounced, unbeknownst, unconvinced, underfinanced, unfenced, winced. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-e-e-i-i-n-n-p-r-x" | |
-1 letter: inexpedience, inexperience. | |
-2 letters: experienced. | |
-3 letters: expedience, experience. | |
-5 letters: deepener, endexine, exceeder, expender, repinned. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 65 78 70 65 72 69 65 6E 63 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -. . -..- .--. . .-. .. . -. -.-. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01100101 01111000 01110000 01100101 01110010 01101001 01100101 01101110 01100011 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n e x p e r i e n c e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0065 0078 0070 0065 0072 0069 0065 006E 0063 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43807190827184757180697170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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