What does callow mean?
Definitions for callow
ˈkæl oʊcal·low
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Princeton's WordNet
fledgling, unfledged, callowadjective
young and inexperienced
"a fledgling enterprise"; "a fledgling skier"; "an unfledged lawyer"
Wiktionary
callownoun
A callow young bird.
callownoun
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.
callowadjective
Bald.
callowadjective
Unfledged (of a young bird).
callowadjective
Immature, lacking in life experience.
Those three young men are particularly callow youths.
callowadjective
Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis). Teneral.
callowadjective
Shallow or weak-willed.
callowadjective
Unburnt (of a brick)
Etymology: From calwe, from calu, from kalwaz, from gAlw-. Cognate with kaal, kahl, голый.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Callowadjective
Unfledged; naked; without feathers.
Bursting with kindly rapture, forth disclos’d
Their callow young. Paradise Lost, b. vii. l. 420.Then as an eagle, who, with pious care,
Was beating widely on the wing for prey,
To her now silent airy does repair,
And finds her callow infants forc’d away. Dryden.How in small flights they know to try their young,
And teach the callow child her parent’s song. Matthew Prior.
ChatGPT
callow
Callow refers to someone, usually young, who is inexperienced, immature, or lacks the sophistication and wisdom that comes with age or experience. It is often used to describe behavior or actions that seem naive or show a lack of judgment.
Webster Dictionary
Callowadjective
destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged
Callowadjective
immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth
Callownoun
a kind of duck. See Old squaw
Etymology: [OE. calewe, calu, bald, AS. calu; akin to D. kaal, OHG. chalo, G. Kuhl; cf. L. calvus.]
Wikidata
Callow
Callow is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England, about 4 miles south of Hereford. The church is dedicated to St Mary.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Callow
kal′ō, adj. not covered with feathers: unfledged, unbearded: inexperienced: low-lying and liable to be submerged.—n. an alluvial flat. [A.S. calu; Ger. kahl, L. calvus, bald.]
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
Callow
an inland county in Leinster, Ireland; also the county town.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
CALLOW
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Callow is ranked #22026 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Callow surname appeared 1,177 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Callow.
94.6% or 1,114 total occurrences were White.
1.9% or 23 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.4% or 17 total occurrences were of two or more races.
0.9% or 11 total occurrences were Black.
Anagrams for callow »
low-cal
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of callow in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of callow in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
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