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  • as inborn yesterday
  • as ingreen
  • as intender

synonyms for wet behind the ears

  • childlike
  • green
  • gullible
  • inexperience
  • innocent
  • naïve
  • unworldly
  • fresh
  • new
  • raw
  • immature
  • innocent
  • tenderfoot
  • unseasoned
  • young
  • callow
  • cherry
  • credulous
  • gullible
  • ignorant
  • inexpert
  • ingenuous
  • naive
  • unconversant
  • unpolished
  • unpracticed
  • unskillful
  • unsophisticated
  • untrained
  • unversed
  • youthful
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On this page you'll find 60 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to wet behind the ears, such as: childlike, green, gullible, inexperience, innocent, and naïve.
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How to use wet behind the ears in a sentence

Joe looked at her with a smile, his face still solemn and serious for all its youth and the fires of new-lit hope behind his eyes.
THE BONDBOYGEORGE W. (GEORGE WASHINGTON) OGDEN
More soldiers crowded into the cave and Professor-Commander Krafft came in behind them.
SENSE OF OBLIGATIONHENRY MAXWELL DEMPSEY (AKA HARRY HARRISON)
In treble, second and fourth, the first change is a dodge behind; and the second time the treble leads, there's a double Bob.
TINTINNALOGIA, OR, THE ART OF RINGINGRICHARD DUCKWORTH AND FABIAN STEDMAN
Drowned every few seconds by our tremendous salvoes, this more nervous noise crept back insistently into our ears in the interval.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTON
Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
The Seven-score and four on the six middle Bells, the treble leading, and the tenor lying behind every change, makes good Musick.
TINTINNALOGIA, OR, THE ART OF RINGINGRICHARD DUCKWORTH AND FABIAN STEDMAN
I seized the opportunity to watch what I supposed would be a most interesting interview, from behind a curtain.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
He turned to the gentle accents of his sweet Alice, breathed in a letter which had been wet with her grateful tears.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTER
Monsieur,” growls the baron, “stone walls have ears, you say if only they had tongues; what tales these could tell!
CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU
The noise of the hammer is always in his ears, and his eye is upon the pattern of the vessel he maketh.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUS
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO WET BEHIND THE EARS

  • childlike
  • green
  • gullible
  • inexperience
  • innocent
  • naïve
  • unworldly
  • wet behind the ears
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.