unfledged
pronunciation
How to pronounce unfledged in British English: UK ['ʌn'fledʒd]
How to pronounce unfledged in American English: US [ʌn'fledʒd]
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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 .