uninitiate

ADJECTIVE

inexperienced

Synonyms

STRONG

amateur green innocent kid prentice raw rookie tenderfoot young

WEAK

callow fresh ignorant immature inept inexpert naive new rude sophomoric spring chicken unaccustomed unacquainted unconversant undisciplined unfamiliar with unfledged uninitiated unpracticed unschooled unseasoned unsophisticated untrained untried unused unversed unworldly verdant wet behind ears

Antonyms

STRONG

experienced old

NOUN

amateur

Synonyms

STRONG

abecedarian apprentice aspirant beginner dabbler dilettante greenhorn ham hopeful layperson learner neophyte novice probationer putterer recruit tenderfoot tyro

WEAK

Sunday driver bush leaguer nonprofessional smatterer

Antonyms

STRONG

expert professional

Example Sentences

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Plus, coming into “Dune: Prophecy” as a stone-cold uninitiate is a challenge for which the script compensates using a combination of summary via narration and a brief, expository title card.

From Salon • Nov. 17, 2024

Even the uninitiate can be sure that the victim will not be Guest Star Eva Gabor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Off-putting or silly to the uninitiate, her messages inspire true believers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Georges Rouault is not an easy artist for the uninitiate who are either baffled or enraged by his splashes of paint, the occasionally grotesque appearance of his great clown's heads, his brick-colored nudes.

From Time Magazine Archive

No need to dwell further on this for you who have watched and felt and become lost in it; useless to attempt more for the uninitiate.

From Bruce of the Circle A by Titus, Harold

uninitiate

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