Meanings
comparative more inexperienced · superlative most inexperienced
- Not experienced; lacking knowledge because lacking experience.
Veteran Wiktionary editors frustrated with inexperienced newcomers should remember that they were once in that position.
1 more example
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.
2020 May 6, Veronica Stracqualursi, “Reports: Inexperience and cronyism slowed Kushner-led efforts to procure medical supplies”, in CNNSynonyms: nonexperienced, unexperienced, green, callow, experienceless, unexperienced, fresh, green
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot experienced; lacking knowledge because lacking experience.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivelacking practical experience or training
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Italic*n̥-
- Latinin-
- Middle Englishin-
- Englishin-
- Englishexperience
- Englishexperienced
- Englishinexperienced
From in- + experienced.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Ancient Greek ἄπειρος
- ἄπειρος (ápeiros)not experienced
Bengali বেওয়াকেফ
- বেওয়াকেফ (beōẇakeph)not experienced
Bulgarian неопитен
- неопитен (neopiten)not experienced
Catalan inexpert
- inexpertnot experienced
Chinese Mandarin 沒經驗 /没经验
- 沒經驗 /没经验 (méijīngyàn)not experienced
Czech nezkušený
- nezkušenýnot experienced
Finnish kokematon
- kokematonnot experienced
French inexpérimenté
- inexpérimenténot experienced
German unerfahren
- unerfahrennot experienced
Greek άπειρος
- άπειρος (ápeiros)not experienced
Hindi अनुभवहीन
- अनुभवहीन (anubhavhīn)not experienced
Hungarian tapasztalatlan, gyakorlatlan
- tapasztalatlannot experienced
- gyakorlatlannot experienced
Irish anársa
- anársanot experienced
Italian imperito, inesperto
- imperitonot experienced
- inespertonot experienced
- sprovvedutonot experienced
- incompetentenot experienced
- impreparatonot experienced
Japanese 経験のない
- 経験のない (keiken no nai)not experienced
Latin imperītus
- imperītusnot experienced
Māori ihupiro, ihupuku
- ihupironot experienced
- ihupukunot experienced
- ihu hūpēnot experienced
Norwegian Bokmål uerfaren
- uerfarennot experienced
Polish niedoświadczony, niewprawny
- niedoświadczonynot experienced
- niewprawnynot experienced
Portuguese inexperiente
- inexperientenot experienced
Russian нео́пытный, неискушённый
- нео́пытный (neópytnyj)not experienced
- неискушённый (neiskušónnyj)not experienced
- безо́пытный (bezópytnyj)not experienced
Slovak neskúsený
- neskúsenýnot experienced
Spanish inexperto, tortolito
- inexpertonot experienced
- tortolitonot experienced
- inexperienciadonot experienced
- poco experienciadonot experienced
- nada experienciadonot experienced
Swedish oerfaren
- oerfarennot experienced
Turkish toy, çaylak
- toynot experienced
- çaylaknot experienced
- deneyimsiznot experienced
- aceminot experienced
- tecrübesiznot experienced
Ukrainian недосві́дчений
- недосві́дчений (nedosvídčenyj)not experienced
Cite this entry
inexperienced. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inexperienced
“inexperienced.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inexperienced. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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