INEXPERIENCED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inexperienced mean? 

• INEXPERIENCED (adjective)
  The adjective INEXPERIENCED has 1 sense:

1. lacking practical experience or training

  Familiarity information: INEXPERIENCED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INEXPERIENCED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lacking practical experience or training

Synonyms:

inexperienced; inexperient

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 

The consequence of this, upon a mind so young, so lively, so inexperienced as Mrs. Brandon's, was but too natural.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

You know, mama, how young and inexperienced I was, when you presented him before me, of a sudden, as a lover.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Round after round had ended by Crab Wilson going down, and it was evident, even to my inexperienced eyes, that he was weakening rapidly.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was dazzled, stimulated: my senses were excited; and being ignorant, raw, and inexperienced, I thought I loved her.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I don’t blame you for not knowing this, for you are young and inexperienced, but if you wish to get on in your new duties you will work with me and not against me.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was one which could not fail to impress itself deeply on my mind, unfolding as it did a number of circumstances, each interesting and wonderful to one so utterly inexperienced as I was.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

To her the cares were sometimes almost beyond the happiness; for young and inexperienced, with small means of choice and no confidence in her own taste, the how she should be dressed was a point of painful solicitude; and the almost solitary ornament in her possession, a very pretty amber cross which William had brought her from Sicily, was the greatest distress of all, for she had nothing but a bit of ribbon to fasten it to; and though she had worn it in that manner once, would it be allowable at such a time in the midst of all the rich ornaments which she supposed all the other young ladies would appear in?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I may not have used it to the best account; I was young and inexperienced; but I never turned a deaf ear to its artless pleading.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His face had none of the eager alertness of his opponent, and his skin, of a dead white, with heavy folds about the chest and ribs, showed, even to my inexperienced eyes, that he was not a man who should fight without training.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was only to ask Elinor to marry him;—and considering that he was not altogether inexperienced in such a question, it might be strange that he should feel so uncomfortable in the present case as he really did, so much in need of encouragement and fresh air.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)