unexperienced

English

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.

unexperienced (comparative more unexperienced, superlative most unexperienced)

Synonym of inexperienced.
- 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
  [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 […] .
- 2016 February 22, Andrew Fennell, The Guardian‎^[1]:
  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.
Not known through experience.
Near-synonyms: unencountered, unprecedented, unrealized

The team performed well even in previously unexperienced situations.
- 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
  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.
- 2015, Christopher Berry Gray, Being A Primer:
  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.

inexperienced — see inexperienced,‎ nonexperienced

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

unexperienced