Synonyms: inexperienced, inexperient
Definition: lacking practical experience or training
Similar words: unfledged, callow, fledgling
Definition: young and inexperienced
Usage: a fledgling enterprise; a fledgling skier; an unfledged lawyer
Definition: lacking training or experience
Usage: the new men were eager to fight; raw recruits
Similar words: naive, uninitiate, uninitiated
Definition: not initiated; deficient in relevant experience
Usage: it seemed a bizarre ceremony to uninitiated western eyes; he took part in the experiment as a naive subject
Similar words: unpracticed, unpractised, unversed
Definition: not having had extensive practice
Similar words: unseasoned, untested, untried, young
Definition: not tried or tested by experience
Usage: unseasoned artillery volunteers; still untested in battle; an illustrator untried in mural painting; a young hand at plowing