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unreif — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • callow adj Immature, inexperienced, or naive.
  • immature adj Behaving in a childish or emotionally undeveloped way.
  • juvenile adj Young or not yet fully grown; relating to young people.
  • unripe adj Developing too early; premature.
  • verdant adj Green in colour.

Senses

unreif is used for these senses in English:

  • callow (figurative) Lacking life experience; immature, inexperienced, naive; also, of or relating to something immature or inexperienced.
  • immature Not fully formed or developed; not grown. [from 17th c.]
  • immature Childish in behavior; juvenile. [from 20th c.]
  • juvenile Characteristic of youth or immaturity; childish.
  • unripe Not ripe.
  • verdant Inexperienced.

callow — full definition

  1. adj Immature, inexperienced, or naive.
  2. adj Having no hair; bald, bare, hairless.
  3. adj Of a brick: unburnt.
  4. adj Of a young bird, or (part of) its body: having not developed feathers yet; featherless, unfledged; hence, of other animals or their bodies: having no fur or hair; furless, hairless, unfurred.

immature — full definition

  1. adj Behaving in a childish or emotionally undeveloped way.
  2. adj Not yet fully grown or developed.

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