(n.) A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a greenhorn commander-in-chief and a Democrat to boot, Washington watchers say Obama has had scant opportunity to win the military's respect, let alone its affection.
(2) And on bass is Jack Lawrence, recognisable not only as a member of the Raconteurs and Cincinnati-based trio the Greenhornes, but also because of his striking resemblance to the Greek singer Nana Mouskouri.
(3) "I'm sick and tired of all that rubbish," continues Baron Funtimes, angrier now, as greenhorns Jaz, Myles, Jordan and co gulp and clench their bumcheeks.
(4) Liston was presumed invincible and the greenhorn, fresh-faced challenger was an unprecedented 8-1 underdog – odds that lengthened when, at the weigh-in, Clay’s apparent hysterics had doctors pronouncing him traumatised by fear.
(5) Wuthering Heights features Skins regular Kaya Scodelario as the adult Cathy, but her co-stars are all greenhorns: Shannon Beer, 13, and Solomon Glave, 14, as the young Cathy and Heathcliff, and 23-year-old James Howson as the older Heathcliff.
(6) But we never planned the Raconteurs either - I went over to Brendan [Benson's] house one afternoon, the Greenhornes were in town, and all of a sudden we were recording an album.
Inexperienced
Definition:
(a.) Not having experience unskilled.
Example Sentences:
(1) Inexperienced physicians are often unable to immediately identify these translucencies as air enclosures in the intracranial cavity.
(2) I felt like he was a little bit inexperienced and the race got away from him a little bit at the third-last.
(3) The digital mapping approach is potentially of great value in prospectively determining pulse timing parameters to produce optimum contrast images, in producing contrast maps to aid retrospective image interpretation, and as a training aid for clinicians inexperienced in the interpretation MR images.
(4) The relatively conservative behavior of these mice in selecting between multiple sources of food and water and different types of activity wheels suggests the need for careful experimental design in free-choice studies with inexperienced animals.
(5) This increase was greater with the inexperienced raters than with the experienced group.
(6) His weaknesses were that he could be perceived as over-smooth, too soft and not tough enough, and inexperienced.
(7) Subjective global assessment is a useful tool for the evaluation of nutritional status, even when used by inexperienced professionals.
(8) Inexperienced staff lost control of one wing of the prison for several hours, and enormous damage was caused to that section of the building, cell doors broken after being rammed with parts of the smashed pool table.
(9) Although the simple A-B interaction effect was not found, significant second-order interactions were found for both accurate empathy and positive reactions which indicated that the predicted interaction effect tends to be upheld for inexperienced therapists but attenuated or reversed for experienced therapists.
(10) It can be successfully used by inexperienced physicians.
(11) Inexperienced vaccinators administered measles vaccine significantly faster (P less than .001) with Ezeject than with 3-cc syringes, but the times were similar for experienced vaccinators.
(12) The pitfall of poor definition is that the inexperienced surgeon may find himself unexpectedly drilling out an obliterated cochlear duct.
(13) The mounting pattern of inexperienced rabbits was similar to that of experienced rabbits.
(14) However, the truth is this inexperienced president-elect probably has no knowledge of what he’s talking about.
(15) An important practical conclusion is to allow repeated testing of all inexperienced patients in whom initial fields do not agree with clinical findings.
(16) The performance of ten dentists with a minimum of 1.5 years of experience with xeroradiography was compared with that of dentists inexperienced with xeroradiographs.
(17) "Reasoned criticism of Cook is fair enough, but he has a vastly inexperienced team at his disposal (and no matter what one may think of the absence of the Whistler, Cook can hardly be held responsible for the loss of Trott, Swann, Tremlett and Finn), so why not give him until the end of the Summer?"
(18) Despite their best efforts her staff, many young and inexperienced, are feeling “almost criminalised”.
(19) I don’t need to come out and prove my innocence.” The teenage converts – both male and female – who form much of Isis’ recruiting base in the West, are young and inexperienced.
(20) The issues surrounding skill mix are often highly contentious and, not surprisingly, various interest groups either welcome or reject attempts to examine the different combinations of staff, qualified and unqualified, experienced and inexperienced, in relation to costs, outcomes and quality of nursing care.