"Relative novice" means someone who is new or inexperienced in comparison to others but may have some level of knowledge or experience. Full definition
Primary schools in Havering were right at the heart of the development and trialling of the resources, this included schools that were trailblazers as well as those that classed themselves as relative novices. (educationbusinessuk.net)
«In teaching, you get a really good sense of timing and of wrapping up ideas so they're understandable by relative novices. (news.stanford.edu)
It was tough to tell how much of The Descendants was Payne, whose human dramedies (Sideways, About Schmidt, Election), typically adapted from novels with Jim Taylor, always garner notice and how much was the separate ampersand - bound pair of relative novices whose script Payne seemed to rework. (dvdizzy.com)