callowとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkæloʊ/
• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkaləʊ/
  • 韻: -æləʊ

形容詞

callow (comparative callower または more callow, superlative callowest または most callow)

1. Unfledged (of a young bird).
   • 1717, John Dryden, “Book XII”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 731548838:

     And in the leafy summit spy'd a nest, / Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed.

2. (by extension) Immature, lacking in life experience.

   Antonyms: mature, experienced

   Those three young men are particularly callow youths.

   • 2018 May 30, Zoe Williams, “Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier – review”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The restless scrolling, the clammy self-reproach afterwards … we could recognise that as addiction quite easily, but the mathematical mechanism for having created it makes horrible sense (Lanier isn’t that interested in culprits, though he finds all of Silicon Valley pretty callow).

   • 2019 May 8, Barney Ronay, “Liverpool’s waves of red fury and recklessness end in joyous bedlam”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     Barça had frozen. Alexander-Arnold saw it, caught Divok Origi’s eyes and pinged the perfect cross for a double-take of a winning goal. This was a 20-year-old local lad, product of down the road, out-thinking Barcelona, making them look like callow, pigeon-chested schoolboys.

3. Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects または other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis); teneral.
4. Shallow or weak-willed.
5. (of a brick) Unburnt.
6. Of land: low-lying and liable to be submerged.
7. (obsolete) Bald.