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Absence or want of experience; lack of personal and experimental knowledge; as, the inexperience of youth. Failings which are incident to youth and inexperience. Dryden. Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. Addison.

Not having experience unskilled. "Inexperienced youth." Cowper.

ction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth. After making the largest allowance for fraud. Macaulay.

One who begins or originates anything. Specifically: A young or inexperienced practitioner or student; a tyro. A sermon of a new beginner. Swift.

mind, as from not knowing what to do or to say; disconcertedness. The embarrassment which inexperienced minds have often to express themselves upon paper. W. Irving. The embarrassments tom commerce growing out of the late regulations. Bancroft.

stances are prosperous; as, a fair-weather friend. Fair-weather sailor, a make-believe or inexperienced sailor; -- the nautical equivalent of carpet knight.

One easily deceived in buying stocks; an inexperienced and unwary jobber. [Cant, U.S.]

Like a friar; inexperienced. Bacon.

A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon. W. Irving.

Immaturity; unripeness; as, the greenness of fruit; inexperience; as, the greenness of youth.

Government by new or inexperienced hands; upstart rule; raw or untried officials.

Great hurry; rash, tumultuous haste; impetuosity. "The precipitation of inexperience." Rambler.

Hence: Unprepared for use or enjoyment; immature; unripe; unseasoned; inexperienced; unpracticed; untried; as, raw soldiers; a raw recruit. Approved himself to the raw judgment of the multitude. De Quincey.

Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced. In thy fortunes am unlearned and strange. Shak.

Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf. I suppose you are a young barrister, sucking lawyer, or that sort of thing. Thackeray. Sucking bottle, a feeding bottle. See under Bottle. -- Sucking fish (Zoöl.), the remora. See Remora. Baird. -- Su…

Inexperience. [Obs.]

Not experienced; being without experience; inexperienced. Swift.

Inexperienced. [Obs.]

Unskilled; inexperienced. [Obs.] Clarendon.

Not skillful; inexperienced; awkward; bungling; as, an unskillful surgeon or mechanic; an unskillful logician.