“Unfledged” (un-FLEJD) – from the Middle English – means lacking the feathers necessary for flight. We use the word to mean immature or not fully developed.
Example (as used by Helen Mondloch in an issue of World and I): “Some also charge the leaders with sheltering unfledged youth from the real world or, as one public education official quoted in the Washington Post put it, ‘prolonging a cocoon existence.’”
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