unexperienced
English
editEtymology
editFrom un- + experienced.
Adjective
editunexperienced (comparative more unexperienced, superlative most unexperienced)
- Synonym of inexperienced.
- 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
- [A]s my coachman was but an unexperienced driver, I was obliged to make use of my own skill in that exercise, and direct his endeavours the whole way […] .
- 2016 February 22, Andrew Fennell, The Guardian[1]:
- These are not always essential on a CV but in the case of an unexperienced candidate, they can help to give recruiters more insight into your capabilities.
- Not known through experience.
- 2015, Christopher Berry Gray, Being A Primer:
- Whether material or spiritual, this is not the environment we know; even the most encased of physical beings, and the most unexperienced modes of being spiritual, are present to each other in expectation of experience if in no other way.
- Near-synonyms: unencountered, unprecedented, unrealized
- The team performed well even in unexperienced situations.