different between childlike vs callow
childlike
English
Etymology
child +? -like
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?a?ldla?k/
Adjective
childlike (comparative more childlike, superlative most childlike)
- Innocent and trustful; credulous; artless.
- Synonyms: credulous, unworldly; see also Thesaurus:naive
- Of, like, or suitable for a child.
- Synonyms: childish, childly; see also Thesaurus:childlike
Quotations
Derived terms
- childlikeness
Related terms
- childish
Translations
References
- childlike in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- childlike in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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callow
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)
- Unfledged (of a young bird).
- (by extension) Immature, lacking in life experience.
- Antonyms: mature, experienced
- Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis); teneral.
- Shallow or weak-willed.
- (of a brick) Unburnt.
- Of land: low-lying and liable to be submerged.
- (obsolete) Bald.
Translations
Noun
callow (countable and uncountable, plural callows)
- A callow young bird.
- 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.
- An alluvial flat.
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “callow”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Anagrams
- low-cal
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