cal·low  (k l  )
adj.
Lacking adult maturity or experience; immature: a callow young man.
[Middle English calwe, bald, from Old English calu.]
cal
low·ness n. |
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Todd, now a middle-aged man of experience, guides his callow sons: (his daughter Isabella was never callow; she was born with the wisdom of the ages.)
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