Synonyms of the word

fledgling

• adj. Untried or inexperienced.
• adj. Emergent or Rising.
• n. A young bird which has just developed its flight feathers (notably wings).
• n. An insect that has just fledged, i.e. undergone its final moult to become an adult or imago.
• n. (figuratively) An immature, naïve and/or inexperienced person.

beginner

• n. Someone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started.
• n. Someone who sets (or puts) something in motion.

callow

• adj. (obsolete) Bald.
• adj. Unfledged (of a young bird).
• adj. Immature, lacking in life experience.
• adj. Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis)…
• adj. Shallow or weak-willed.
• adj. Unburnt (of a brick).
• n. A callow young bird.
• n. A callow or teneral phase of an insect or other arthropod, typically shortly after ecdysis, while the…

entrant

• n. A participant who enters something, such as a contest.
• n. A newcomer.

fledged

• adj. Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of fledge.

fledgeling

• n. Alternative spelling of fledgling.

freshman

• n. (obsolete) A novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge.
• n. (US) A person of either sex entering the first year of an institution, especially a high school (ninth…

inexperienced

• adj. Not experienced; lacking knowledge or experience; green.
• adj. Virginal or lacking in personal knowledge and experiences of sex.

initiate

• adj. (obsolete) Unpractised; untried; new.
• adj. (obsolete) Begun; commenced; introduced to, or instructed in, the rudiments; newly admitted.
• n. A new member of an organization.
• n. One who has been through a ceremony of initiation.
• v. (transitive) To begin; to start.
• v. To instruct in the rudiments or principles; to introduce.
• v. To confer membership on; especially, to admit to a secret order with mysterious rites or ceremonies.
• v. (intransitive) To do the first act; to perform the first rite; to take the initiative.

mature

• adj. Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
• adj. Profound; careful.
• adj. (obsolete) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
• v. (intransitive, of food, especially fruit) To become mature; to ripen.
• v. (intransitive) To gain experience or wisdom with age.
• v. (transitive) To make something mature.
• v. (intransitive, finance) To reach the date when payment is due.

neophyte

• n. A beginner; a person who is new to a subject, skill, or belief.
• n. A novice (recent convert), a new convert or proselyte, a new monk.
• n. (Christianity) A name given by the early Christians, and still given by the Roman Catholics, to those…
• n. (biology) A plant species recently introduced to an area (in contrast to archaeophyte, a long-established…

newbie

• n. (slang) A newcomer, someone new to something.
• n. (Internet) A new user or participant; someone who is extremely new and inexperienced (to a game or activity)…
• n. (slang) Anything recently introduced into a setting, especially something that replaces an older version.

newcomer

• n. One who has recently come to a community; a recent arrival.
• n. A new participant in some activity; a neophyte.

novice

• n. A beginner; one who is not very familiar or experienced in a particular subject.
• n. (religion) A new member of a religious order accepted on a conditional basis, prior to confirmation.

starter

• n. Someone who starts something.
• n. Something that starts something.
• n. The first course of a meal, consisting of a small, usually savoury, dish.
• n. (team sports) A player in the lineup of players that a team fields at the beginning of a game.
• n. A dog that rouses game.

tiro

• n. A newly recruited soldier.
• n. A novice without practical experience.

tyro

• n. A beginner; a novice.

unfledged

• adj. Not having feathers; (of a bird) not yet having developed its wings and feathers and become able to fly.
• adj. (figuratively) Not yet fully grown or developed; not yet mature.
• adj. (figuratively) Inexperienced, like a tyro or novice.