— neophytic /nee'euh fit"ik/ , neophytish /nee"euh fuy'tish/ , adj. — neophytism /nee"euh fuy tiz'euhm/ , n.
/nee"euh fuyt'/ , n.
1. a beginner or novice: He's a neophyte at chess.
2. Rom. Cath. Ch. a novice.
3. a person newly converted to a belief, as a heathen, heretic, or nonbeliever; proselyte.
4. Primitive Church. a person newly baptized.
[ 1540-50; neophytus newly planted neóphytos. See NEO-, -PHYTE ]
Syn. 1. greenhorn, tyro.