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unexperienced en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English experience English -ed English experienced English unexperienced From un- (“not”) + experienced.

Meanings

  1. Synonym of inexperienced.
    • These are not always essential on a CV but in the case of an unexperienced candidate, they can help to give recruiters more insight into your capabilities. 2016 February 22, Andrew Fennell, The Guardian:
    • [A]s my coachman was but an unexperienced driver, I was obliged to make use of my own skill in that exercise, and direct his endeavours the whole way […]. 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
  2. Not known through experience.
    • Whether material or spiritual, this is not the environment we know; even the most encased of physical beings, and the most unexperienced modes of being spiritual, are present to each other in expectation of experience if in no other way. 2015, Christopher Berry Gray, Being A Primer:
    • Near-synonyms: unencountered, unprecedented, unrealized
    • All the wonders that are unimaginable and unspeakable; all these wonders are translated in the mysterious melodiousness of the guitar. […] Sometimes it brings to me the bird-twitterings in the air; and sometimes it strikes up in me rapturous pulsations of legendary delights eternally unexperienced and unknown to me. 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
    • The team performed well even in previously unexperienced situations.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
most unexperienced Degree=Sup lexicographic
more unexperienced Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

unexperiencedness

Synonyms

inexperienced · unencountered · unprecedented · unrealized

unexperienced en · VERB · etymology 2

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of unexperience
    form of unexperience