All novice synonyms
nov·ice
N n adjective novice
- newcome — Just arrived; lately come.
- untutored — not tutored; untaught; uninstructed.
- unaccustomed — not accustomed or habituated: to be unaccustomed to hardships.
- untrained — Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
noun novice
- beginner — A beginner is someone who has just started learning to do something and cannot do it very well yet.
- learner — a person who is learning; student; pupil; apprentice; trainee.
- trainee — a person being trained, especially in a vocation; apprentice.
- apprentice — An apprentice is a young person who works for someone in order to learn their skill.
- greenhorn — an untrained or inexperienced person.
- neophyte — a beginner or novice: He's a neophyte at chess.
- rookie — an athlete playing his or her first season as a member of a professional sports team: The rookie replaced the injured regular at first base.
- newcomer — a person or thing that has recently arrived; new arrival: She is a newcomer to our city. The firm is a newcomer in the field of advertising.
- pupil — the expanding and contracting opening in the iris of the eye, through which light passes to the retina.
- amateur — An amateur is someone who does something as a hobby and not as a job.
- colt — A colt is a young male horse.
- convert — If you convert a vehicle or piece of equipment, you change it so that it can use a different fuel.
- cub — A cub is a young wild animal such as a lion, wolf, or bear.
- fledgling — a young bird just fledged.
- gremlin — a mischievous invisible being, said by airplane pilots in World War II to cause engine trouble and mechanical difficulties.
- mark — Marcus Alonzo ("Mark") 1837–1904, U.S. merchant and politician: senator 1897–1904.
- novitiate — the state or period of being a novice of a religious order or congregation.
- plebe — Also, pleb. (at the U.S. Military and Naval academies) a member of the freshman class.
- postulant — a candidate, especially for admission into a religious order.
- prentice — a male given name.
- probationer — a person undergoing probation or trial.
- proselyte — a person who has changed from one opinion, religious belief, sect, or the like, to another; convert.
- punk — Slang. something or someone worthless or unimportant. a young ruffian; hoodlum. an inexperienced youth. a young male partner of a homosexual. an apprentice, especially in the building trades. Prison Slang. a boy.
- recruit — a newly enlisted or drafted member of the armed forces.
- starter — a person or thing that starts.
- student — a person formally engaged in learning, especially one enrolled in a school or college; pupil: a student at Yale.
- tenderfoot — a raw, inexperienced person; novice.