Definitions for callow

callow cal·low

Spelling: [kal-oh]
IPA: /ˈkæl oʊ/

Callow is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in callow (acllow).

Definitions for callow

noun

  1. a recently hatched worker ant.

adjective

  1. immature or inexperienced:
  2. (of a young bird) featherless; unfledged.

Origin of callow

before 1000; Middle English, Old English calu bald; cognate with Dutch kaal, German kahl bald, OCS golŭ bare

Examples for callow

This is clearly not a boast; it seems, rather, a shamed admission of petty, callow cruelty.

But even in those days as a callow, trusting youth, he'd been smarter than Boswell.

But now that veneer is gone, and what remains is a callow man-child at odds with himself.

Anyone going through Prozac Nation can certainly find plenty of callow moments when Wurtzel does whine.

The last thing we should do is help the callow—and dangerous—Kim continue his rule.

Culpepper sprang, a flash of green, straight at the callow boy.

In this callow atmosphere, Brooke Astor would never be an icon, but she is remembered with nostalgia.

With bird nicknames may be mentioned callow, unfledged, cognate with Lat.

The 87 Medium, who is at first indifferent, finally warns her callow child.

"There speaks your callow inexperience," said he, with a pitying smile.

Word Value for callow
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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