unfledged

pronunciation

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  • Adjective:
    (of birds) not yet having developed feathers
    (of an arrow) not equipped with feathers
    young and inexperienced

Word Origin

unfledged (adj.)
c. 1600, of persons, "immature, not experienced," from un- (1) "not" + past participle of fledge (v.). Literal sense of "not yet covered in feathers" is recorded from 1610s.

Antonym

Example

1. The ability when those unfledged writers finish class writes the story .
2. An unfledged or nestling hawk .
3. A fledgling enterprise ; a fledgling skier ; an unfledged lawyer .

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