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UK
/ʌnflˈɛdʒd/
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ADJECTIVE
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(of birds) not yet having developed feathers
a small unfledged sparrow on the window sill -
young and inexperienced
a fledgling skier
a fledgling enterprise
an unfledged lawyer -
(of an arrow) not equipped with feathers
shot an unfledged arrow
How To Use unfledged In A Sentence
- In my own discipline, chemistry, I see lecture classes of several hundreds, followed by smaller laboratory sections taught by unfledged graduate assistants.
- And now they both broke down and sobbed aloud without a pause, like birds bereaved, like the sea eagle or taloned vulture, when villages have robbed the nests of their unfledged young.
- The historian of the contest terms it "the Waterloo among book-battles," whereto "many a knight came far and wide from his retirement, and many an unfledged combatant left his father's castle to partake of the glory of such a contest. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
- And Hareton has been cast out like an unfledged dunnock! Wuthering Heights
- The very oversight perceptible to any eye and painful to any ear not sealed up by stepdame nature from all perception of pleasure or of pain derivable from good verse or bad -- the reckless reiteration of the same rhyme with but one poor couplet intervening -- suggests rather the oversight of an unfledged poet than the obtuseness of a full-grown poeticule or poetaster. A Study of Shakespeare
- And now they both broke down and sobbed aloud without a pause, like birds bereaved, like the sea eagle or taloned vulture, when villages have robbed the nests of their unfledged young.
- The survey also finds that many Chinese have little faith in the unfledged domestic soccer league which, in their eyes, is full of fly-by-night operations and scandals and therefore unsuitable as betting targets.
- His observations revealed that Foula's sheep target unfledged Arctic terns.
- Paul will be responsible for all in-house comedy and entertainment programmes on BBC national radio, from established favourites such as Just A Minute to developing the talents of unfledged performers and writers.
- shot an unfledged arrow