unfletched
adjEtymology From un- + fletched.
1
Not fletched or feathered.
- an unfletched arrow
2
Figuratively Synonym of unfledged (“of a person: not yet fully grown or mature; lacking experience, like a novice or tyro; immature, inexperienced”).
- [W]hile knovvledge he did vvant, / Our unfletch'd Author, vvrit a VVild Gallant.1667 (revival performance), John Dryden, “Prologue to the Wild-Gallant Reviv’d”, in The Wild Gallant: A Comedy. […], In the Savoy [London]: […] T[homas] Newcomb for H[enry] Herringman, […], published 1669, →OCLC: