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INEXPERIENCED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacking practical experience or training
Synonyms:
inexperienced; inexperient
Classified under:
Similar:
callow; fledgling; unfledged (young and inexperienced)
new; raw (lacking training or experience)
naive; uninitiate; uninitiated (not initiated; deficient in relevant experience)
unpracticed; unpractised; unversed (not having had extensive practice)
unseasoned; untested; untried; young (not tried or tested by experience)
Also:
unskilled (not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency)
naif; naive (marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience)
Antonym:
experienced (having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation)
Context examples:
It is a very strange sensation to inexperienced youth to feel itself quite alone in the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
“We are young and inexperienced, aunt, I know,” I replied; and I dare say we say and think a good deal that is rather foolish.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Strange that I should choose you for the confidant of all this, young lady; passing strange that you should listen to me quietly, as if it were the most usual thing in the world for a man like me to tell stories of his opera-mistresses to a quaint, inexperienced girl like you!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
“Just your old headlong way! You might have been in earnest in striving to get on in the world, without being so very sudden with a timid, loving, inexperienced girl. Poor Dora!”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I thought you were pleased, once, with my being a little inexperienced and girlish, Edward—I am sure you said so—but you seem to hate me for it now, you are so severe.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I had no reason to believe that Littimer understood such arts himself; he never led me to suppose anything of the kind, by so much as the vibration of one of his respectable eyelashes; yet whenever he was by, while we were practising, I felt myself the greenest and most inexperienced of mortals.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
When Agnes laid her bonnet on the table, and sat down beside her, I could not but think, looking on her mild eyes and her radiant forehead, how natural it seemed to have her there; how trustfully, although she was so young and inexperienced, my aunt confided in her; how strong she was, indeed, in simple love and truth.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I had become, in the Murdstone and Grinby time, however short or long it may have been, so unused to the sports and games of boys, that I knew I was awkward and inexperienced in the commonest things belonging to them.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Yes, I had a satisfaction in the thought of marrying an inexperienced and artless person, and forming her character, and infusing into it some amount of that firmness and decision of which it stood in need.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
