Tyro

/ˈtaɪɹoʊ/

Synonyms for "tyro" (48 found)

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Noun(2 words)

beginner novice

abecedarian alphabetarian amateur apprenticearticled clerkbaby beginner boot

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catechumen colt dabbler deb debutant dilettante entrant fledgling freshman greenhorn greeny ignoramus inductee infant

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initiate learner neophyte nestlingnew boynewcomer nonplus nonprofessional novice novitiate postulant probationer probationist pupilraw recruitrecruit rookie smatterer tenderfoot trainee

Noun(4 words)

initiate neophyte newcomer tiro

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being human personunskilled person

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apprentice intern trainee

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economics tyrogreen tyromedical tyrotyro investortyro writer

Inflections

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tyros

Derivations

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tyroship

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Tyro was married to Cretheus but loved Enipeus.

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I ask if in the calm of their measured reveries, if in the deep meditations which fill their hours, they fill the ecstasy of a youthful tyro in the school of pleasure.

Source: wiktionary

Thus[…] he separates[…] the details and the whole[…]; and because details alone[…] are the sign of a tyro's work, he loses sight of the remoter truth, that details […] are the sign of the production of a consummate master.

Source: wiktionary

1857, The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville, included in The Portable North American Indian Reader, New York: Penguin Books, 1977, page 525, Master of that woodland-cunning enabling the adept to subsist where the tyro would perish...

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