Unskilled
[ʌn'skɪld] or [,ʌn'skɪld]
Definition
(adj.) not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency; 'unskilled in the art of rhetoric'; 'an enthusiastic but unskillful mountain climber'; 'unskilled labor'; 'workers in unskilled occupations are finding fewer and fewer job opportunities'; 'unskilled workmanship' .
Edited by Dinah--From WordNet
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Inexperienced, undrilled, unexercised, unpractised, undisciplined, uneducated, unschooled, unprepared, raw.[2]. Awkward, UNSKILFUL.
Edited by Eva
Examples
- The bare walls had been coloured green, evidently by an unskilled hand, and were poorly decorated with a few prints. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- In unskilled forms of labor, the intellectual factors are at minimum precisely because the habits involved are not of a high grade. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Edited by Eva