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inexperienced

adjectiveattested in dialogue

  • //ɪnəkˈspɪəɹi.ənst//

Not experienced; lacking knowledge because lacking experience.

adjective

  1. 1

    Not experienced; lacking knowledge because lacking experience.

    Veteran Wiktionary editors frustrated with inexperienced newcomers should remember that they were once in that position.

    A group of young, inexperienced volunteers was tasked with securing much-needed medical supplies for hospitals fighting coronavirus, hampering the government’s response to a growing pandemic, according to reports by The New York Times and The Washington Post.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English experience English -ed English experienced English inexperienced From in- + experienced.

Forms

comparative
more inexperienced
superlative
most inexperienced
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).