unexperienced
adjEtymology From un- (“not”) + experienced.
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Synonym of inexperienced.
- [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 […].1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
- 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.2016 February 22, Andrew Fennell, The Guardian:
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Not known through experience.
- Near-synonyms: unencountered, unprecedented, unrealized
- The team performed well even in previously unexperienced situations.
2 more examples
- All the wonders that are unimaginable and unspeakable; all these wonders are translated in the mysterious melodiousness of the guitar. […] Sometimes it brings to me the bird-twitterings in the air; and sometimes it strikes up in me rapturous pulsations of legendary delights eternally unexperienced and unknown to me.1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
- 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.2015, Christopher Berry Gray, Being A Primer:
- Derived terms
- unexperiencedness