English Dictionary

callow

/ˈkæloʊ/

adj

Bald, hairless, bare. / Unfledged (of a young bird), featherless. / (by extension, life-cycle developmental stage) Newly emerged or hatched, juvenile.

He was a callow youth with a bald head.

意味（1）

Bald, hairless, bare.

Then there was a little Chinese in full azure costume, with long gesticulating arms, and large callow head, who pertinaciously threw in his squeaky plea for Confucius in the most unsyntactical French.

意味（2）

Unfledged (of a young bird), featherless.

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

意味（3）

(by extension, life-cycle developmental stage) Newly emerged or hatched, juvenile.

callow bee

意味（4）

(by extension) Immature, lacking in life experience.

Those three young men are particularly callow youths.

意味（5）

Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis); teneral.

意味（6）

Shallow or weak-willed.

意味（7）

(of a brick) Unburnt.

意味（8）

Of land: low-lying and liable to be submerged.