callow
adjectiveInexperienced and immature.
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Clear all filtersInexperienced and immature.
To make room for, adapt to, or meet the needs of someone or something.
Adapt or meet needs
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Exercising authority with little allowance for others' input.
Exercising unchecked authority
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To admit a point or yield something after resistance.
Admit or yield
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To accept or allow conduct despite recognizing it as wrong.
Emotional distance that can allow a situation to be judged without personal bias.
Unable to be entered or passed through; also impossible to understand or interpret.
Impossible to understand
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Not allowing a substance to pass through.
Not allowing passage through; figuratively, unaffected by an influence.
Giving in to a desire or allowing oneself a pleasure.
To prohibit or stop by an authoritative order.
Readily allowing behavior or choices, often with few restrictions.
Showing disrespect for something sacred, or using offensive and irreverent language.
Disrespectful of the sacred
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Concerned only with surface features rather than depth or substance.
A lack of depth or attention to underlying meaning or substance.
Clear enough to allow only one reasonable interpretation in context.
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