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INEXPERIENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does inexperient mean?
• INEXPERIENT (adjective)
The adjective INEXPERIENT has 1 sense:
1. lacking practical experience or training
Familiarity information: INEXPERIENT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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)
Derivation:
inexperience (lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience)
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