INEXPERIENCE Synonyms: 24 Similar and Opposite Words

inexperience

noun

Definition of inexperience

as in greenness

lack of experience He blames his mistakes at the new job on inexperience.

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Recent Examples of inexperience Canada’s relative inexperience in the World Cup, plus the enormity of this tournament on home soil, has meant every Canadian game has been the biggest in the program’s history. — Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 25 June 2026 Melliti keeps the shy teenager’s reactions neutral, Fatima’s stoicism a strategy to prevent exposing her inexperience. — Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026 Dennis Kamrany, a lifelong Pacific Palisades resident who sells real estate and is waiting for his home's gas lines to be reconnected more than a year after they were damaged in the fire, said Pratt's political inexperience didn't matter. — ABC News, 9 June 2026 Kenneth Grant and Jordan Phillips, two defensive tackles who cut their teeth as starters in their rookie season, can’t blame this upcoming season’s struggles on youth and inexperience because last year’s playing time was an investment made with the intention of speeding up their development. — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 26 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for inexperience

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One by one the great trees are killed, the suburban greenness collapsing.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 May 2026
Estimates of tundra greenness — a key indicator of warming — are one example of the cost of all this.

— Lara Williams, Twin Cities, 22 Jan. 2026

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What’s interesting in this context is the ignorance portrayed by financial teams with respect to building core strategies.

— Dr. Saheer Nelliparamban, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
And ignorance — or, in the case of some people and/or bots on social media, denial that this is a thing at all — is not an excuse.

— David Aldridge, New York Times, 4 July 2026

Definition of ignorance

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