unexperienced

adjective

un·​experienced

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: not experienced:

a

: having no experience : inexperienced

an unexperienced practitioner

b

: untried

quite unknown and unexperienced by most

—R. C. McCall

Word History

Etymology

partly from un- entry 1 + experience, noun + -ed; partly from un- entry 1 + experienced, past participle of experience

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