Inexperience
[ɪnɪk'spɪərɪəns;ɪnek-] or ['ɪnɪk'spɪrɪəns]
Definition
(noun.) lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience; 'procedural inexperience created difficulties'; 'their poor behavior was due to the rawness of the troops'.
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Definition
(n.) Absence or want of experience; lack of personal and experimental knowledge; as, the inexperience of youth.
Typist: Marion
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Rawness, greenness, ignorance, want of experience.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Ignorance, inconversance, unfamiliarity, strangeness
ANT:Experience, familiarity
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Definition
n. want of experience.—adj. Inexpē′rienced not having experience: unskilled or unpractised.
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Examples
- To my inexperience we at first appeared on the eve of a civil war; each party was violent, acrimonious, and unyielding. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- You will allow for the doubts of youth and inexperience. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- What so blind as inexperience? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- We felt our inexperience, and were unable to help ourselves. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- At first his mother treated his theories as the wild ravings of inexperience. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Inexperienced, stupid from inexperience. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Your inexperience really amuses me! Jane Austen. Emma.
- These little accidents do and must happen, from mere inexperience and the weakness of our nature. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Inexperienced in government, she plunged into all manner of useless expenditure, and swamped her treasury almost in a day. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Now, don't you suppose, my inexperienced girl, that I cannot rebel, in high Promethean fashion, against the gods and fate as well as you. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- My husband, who is not over-confiding, ingenuous, or inexperienced, sees this plain thing no more than Mr Twemlow does--because there is no proof! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I was dazzled, stimulated: my senses were excited; and being ignorant, raw, and inexperienced, I thought I loved her. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The consequence of this, upon a mind so young, so lively, so inexperienced as Mrs. Brandon's, was but too natural. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- You know, mama, how young and inexperienced I was, when you presented him before me, of a sudden, as a lover. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- That I was inexperienced in the art of adapting my mind to minds very differently situated, and addressing them from suitable points of view. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Margaret, inexperienced as she was in all the necessary matter-of-fact business to be got through, did not know to whom to apply for advice. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- We need only provide for the present, and endeavour to fill with pleasant images the inexperienced fancy of your lovely niece. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Mrs. Abel and her husband are inexperienced. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The first impulse of an inexperienced man, should he notice an inrush of water, would be to increase the air pressure, which might be a very dangerous thing to do. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The moment we entered The Wheel of Fortune it was plain even to my inexperienced eyes that there was something wrong in the house. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Two rings adorned his white delicate hands, the value of which even my inexperienced observation detected to be all but priceless. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Inexperienced, stupid from inexperience. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Youth is too inexperienced to balance such nice considerations; parents do not often think of them, or think of them too late. Plato. The Republic.
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