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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
inexperienced
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an inexperienced driver (=who does not have much experience of driving)
▪ Many accidents are caused by young or inexperienced drivers.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
relatively
▪ The Soviets fielded a young and relatively inexperienced side and, as always, showed tremendous athleticism and an appetite for combat.
▪ Provost said the boat operator had practiced the stunt but was relatively inexperienced.
sexually
▪ They were sexually inexperienced at marriage, and scared of babies.
too
▪ I was too inexperienced and nervous to understand the obviousness of his approach.
▪ And he doesn't know what he's talking about: he's too young, too inexperienced, too Edward.
▪ You know that as well as I. We are too young, too inexperienced.
▪ She wondered whether Nathan was too inexperienced to carry this off.
▪ And he's way too inexperienced at club level as a manager.
▪ He was bewildered by McCann's behaviour and felt too inexperienced to accept nomination to the committee.
▪ Parents may see danger when their children are too inexperienced to recognize it.
▪ Damian considered her too inexperienced sexually to be able to fulfil that longing of his to express himself fully through the body.
■ NOUN
pilot
▪ This would certainly be hazard in a cross wind and, to an inexperienced pilot, in any wind direction.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
inexperienced drivers
Inexperienced managers often have problems with their staff.
▪ I'm not going to take orders from some foolish inexperienced young man.
▪ She's too young and inexperienced to go abroad on her own.
▪ There are a lot of young, inexperienced players on the team.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inexperienced

Inexperienced \In`ex*pe"ri*enced\, a. Not having experience; unskilled; naive. ``Inexperienced youth.''
--Cowper.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inexperienced

1620s, adjective from inexperience.

Wiktionary
inexperienced

a. Not experienced; lacking knowledge or experience; green.

WordNet
inexperienced
  1. adj. lacking practical experience or training [ant: experienced]

  2. lacking basic knowledge; "how can someone that age be so ignorant?"; "inexperienced and new to the real world" [syn: ignorant]

  3. lacking experience of life; "a callow youth of seventeen" [syn: callow, naive, unsophisticated]

Usage examples of "inexperienced".

An innumerable multitude pressed around him with eager respect and were perhaps disappointed when they beheld the small stature and simple garb of a hero, whose inexperienced youth had vanquished the Barbarians of Germany, and who had now traversed, in a successful career, the whole continent of Europe, from the shores of the Atlantic to those of the Bosphorus.

Neither youthful and inexperienced nor aged and sly, Benin appeared to be a bit over forty-standard, young for his rank but not unusually so.

He remembered Biri running around the rock, powdering it, and Biri was just a young, inexperienced Sidhe.

And yet to both these parties a box at the opera is as indispensable as to the finished courtezan, who here spreads her seductive lures to catch the eye, and inveigle the heart of the inexperienced and unwary.

All experiments made by inexperienced and incapable observers are unjustifiable, and for an obvious reason.

Now that she, the ruler of that household, was a helpless captive in her own apartments, she felt that Lesbia at Fellside would be her own mistress, and hemmed round with the dangers that beset richly-dowered beauty and inexperienced youth.

But you are too young and too inexperienced to take over the position of Lindo or other tried and tested men.

Beauty and Lionheart were relieved to find that their awkward carpentry and inexperienced mends were holding firm and that, so far as they could tell, there was nothing terribly wrong with their little house.

Chaldrin had overextended himself in his attempt to put truly great strength into his attack, an error rarely made by any other than a young, inexperienced warrior---or one who was sure she had the measure of her opponent.

The force of twenty auxiliary punts, each bearing a knight-commander, three men-at-arms, and three oarsmen, had milled about the Mire every which way under the orders of their inexperienced captains.

The crewmen in the back were listening carefully to the radios too, knowing full well that one of them could soon be in the water, trying to help the A-6 crew, while the other tried to talk a new and inexperienced pilot into a stable hover over the scene.

He would be awkward with women, sexually inexperienced in the normal sense, and find his release in a large pornography collection devoted to deviant practices such as sadomasochism and torture.

The former tyrants, Caligula and Nero, Commodus, and Caracalla, were all dissolute and inexperienced youths, educated in the purple, and corrupted by the pride of empire, the luxury of Rome, and the perfidious voice of flattery.

She was inexperienced, the type the Paul Benedicts of this world prey on.

I knew there were about twenty strays in the herd, and informed Siringo to that effect, but the cattle buyers noticed only two, a red and a roan, which again classed them as inexperienced men among cattle.