Unfledged

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  • adjective. Not having the feathers necessary to fly. Used of a young bird.
  • adjective. Inexperienced, immature, or untried.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Not yet fledged or furnished with feathers.
  • Not having attained to full growth or experience; not fully developed; immature.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Not fledged; not feathered; hence, not fully developed; immature.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Of a bird that has yet to develop its wings and feathers and become able to fly
  • adjective. inexperienced, like a tyro or novice
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. (of birds) not yet having developed feathers
  • adjective. young and inexperienced
  • adjective. (of an arrow) not equipped with feathers
    • Word Usage
    "If the season starts too early the birds are still unfledged and considered too small to hunt."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    experienced  fledged  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    34-year-old  bone-marrow-derived  brant  bright-winged  broad-winged  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    a novice at  a stranger to  adolescent  at half cock  budding  
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