Literary notes about inexperienced (AI summary)
The term "inexperienced" is employed in literature to evoke a sense of naivety, untested skill, or unrefined judgment. Writers use it to describe characters embarking on life’s challenges—whether portraying a young individual’s unguarded feelings or a public figure’s lack of worldly savvy ([1], [2], [3]). In some texts, it also serves to critique societal structures, suggesting that an underdeveloped understanding may lead to misjudgments or even exploitation ([4], [5]). Whether used in intimate portrayals of youthful vulnerability or as a comment on the shortcomings of an unseasoned mind, "inexperienced" becomes a powerful marker of both innocence and the slow journey toward maturity ([6], [7], [8]).
- It is no place for a young and inexperienced girl.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie - I was dazzled, stimulated: my senses were excited; and being ignorant, raw, and inexperienced, I thought I loved her.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë - But she is only a woman, and a young and inexperienced woman at that.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw - It will admit to the ballot thousands of inexperienced persons, unable to vote intelligently.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. Du Bois - There may be temporary exclusions, until the ignorant and their children are taught, or to avoid too sudden an influx of inexperienced voters.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. Du Bois - But such a will is sadly inexperienced; it has hardly tasted or even conceived any possible or high satisfactions.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - Young and inexperienced, I entered wildly into all the follies wealth can purchase or fashion justify; but I was still to be the victim of the phrase.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass - But you’re young and inexperienced, and that’s your excuse for asking sich a question.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens