different between callow vs asinine

English

Etymology

From Middle English calwe (“bald”), from Old English calu (“callow, bare, bald”), from Proto-Germanic *kalwaz (“bare, naked, bald”), from Proto-Indo-European gel(H)wo- (“naked, bald”). Cognate with West Frisian keal (“bald”), Dutch kaal (“bald”), German kahl (“bald”), Russian ?????? (gólyj, “nude”), Latin calvus (“bald”), Persian ??? (kal), Sanskrit ????? (kulvá).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?kælo?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kal??/
• Rhymes: -æl??

Adjective

callow (comparative callower or more callow, superlative callowest or most callow)

1. Unfledged (of a young bird).
2. (by extension) Immature, lacking in life experience.

   Antonyms: mature, experienced
3. Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or 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.

Translations

Noun

callow (countable and uncountable, plural callows)

1. A callow young bird.
2. A callow or teneral phase of an insect or other arthropod, typically shortly after ecdysis, while the skin still is hardening, the colours have not yet become stable, and as a rule, before the animal is able to move effectively.
3. An alluvial flat.

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “callow”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• low-cal

English

Etymology

From Latin asin?nus (“of a donkey or ass”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?æs.?.na?n/, /?æs.?.na?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Adjective

asinine (comparative more asinine, superlative most asinine)

1. Very foolish; failing to exercise intelligence or judgement or rationality

   Synonyms: foolish, obstinate

2. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of donkeys
   • 1881, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, The Ingenious Knight: Don Quixote de la Mancha (page 84)

     Don Quixote had put himself but a little way ayont the village of Don Diego, when he encountered two apparent priests, or students, and two husbandmen, who came mounted on four asinine beasts.

   Synonym: donkeyish

Synonyms

• asinary (obsolete)
• assy (informal)

Derived terms

Related terms

• asinicide

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.zi.nin/
• Homophone: asinines

Adjective

asinine

1. feminine singular of asinin

Italian

Adjective

asinine

1. feminine plural of asinino

Anagrams

• insanie

Latin

Adjective

asin?ne

1. vocative masculine singular of asin?nus