The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unfledged \Un*fledged"\, a.
Not fledged; not feathered; hence, not fully developed;
immature.
--Dryden.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of a bird that has yet to develop its wings and feathers and become able to fly 2 (context figuratively English) inexperienced, like a tyro or novice
WordNet
adj. (of birds) not yet having developed feathers; "a small unfledged sparrow on the window sill" [syn: immature] [ant: fledged]
(of an arrow) not equipped with feathers; "shot an unfledged arrow" [syn: fledgeless, unvaned]
young and inexperienced; "a fledgling enterprise"; "a fledgling skier"; "an unfledged lawyer" [syn: fledgling]
Usage examples of "unfledged".
If he must dispense his balm of Gilead in nostrums and apothegms of dubious taste to restore to health a generation of unfledged profligates let his practice consist better with the doctrines that now engross him.
These attenuated volumes of poetry in fancy bindings open their covers at one like so many little unfledged birds, and one does so long to drop a worm in,--a worm in the shape of a kind word for the poor fledgling!
If he must dispense his balm of Gilead in nostrums and apothegms of dubious taste to restore to health a generation of unfledged profligates let his practice consist better with the doctrines that now engross him.
It confides an unfledged scion to some head-clerk, or gives him in charge of a directory who initiates him into what Bilboquet, that profound philosopher, called the high comedy of government.
T who has a penchant for the unfledged cunny, and often has a game of blindman's buff with the naked children, and a romp with my little Agnes when she is naked.
When I was as old as you, I was a feeling fellow enough, partial to the unfledged, unfostered, and unlucky.