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Unskilled synonyms
ŭn-skĭld'
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inefficient
Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workers; an inefficient administrator.
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  1. Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workers; an inefficient administrator.
  2. Lacking the necessary ability; unskilled; incompetent
  3. Lacking the ability or skill to perform effectively; incompetent:
untrained
Lacking training, not having been instructed in something.
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  1. Lacking training, not having been instructed in something.
uneducated
Not educated.
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  1. Not educated.
amateur
Made up of amateurs:
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  1. Made up of amateurs:
  2. Of or performed by an amateur.
  3. Not professional; unskillful.
inapt
Inappropriate:
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  1. Inappropriate:
  2. Not apt; not suitable; inappropriate
  3. Unapt; not apt; unsuitable; inept.
incapable
Lacking the necessary ability, capacity, or power:
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  1. Lacking the necessary ability, capacity, or power:
  2. Not capable
  3. Unable to perform adequately; incompetent:
incompetent
Lacking sufficient mental ability or awareness:
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  1. Lacking sufficient mental ability or awareness:
  2. Without adequate ability, knowledge, fitness, etc.; failing to meet requirements; incapable; unskillful
  3. Lacking qualities necessary for effective conduct or action:
inept
Lacking or showing a lack of skill or competence; bungling or clumsy:
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  1. Lacking or showing a lack of skill or competence; bungling or clumsy:
  2. Showing a lack of judgment, sense, or reason; inappropriate or foolish:
  3. Inefficient
inexpert
Not expert; unskilled.
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  1. Not expert; unskilled.
unskillful
Not skillful.
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  1. Not skillful.
  2. Not skillful; having little or no skill or dexterity; awkward
  3. (Obsolete) Ignorant.
amateurish
Characteristic of an amateur; not professional.
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  1. Characteristic of an amateur; not professional.
  2. Like an amateur; inexpert; unskillful
dilettante
Of or characteristic of a dilettante
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  1. Of or characteristic of a dilettante
  2. Superficial; amateurish.
unprofessional
Violating the rules or ethical code of a given profession
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  1. Violating the rules or ethical code of a given profession
  2. Not conforming to the standards of a profession:
  3. Unbecoming of a professional; hence inappropriate in the workplace
unskillful
Not skillful.
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  1. Not skillful.
  2. (Obsolete) Ignorant.
  3. Not skillful; having little or no skill or dexterity; awkward
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  • Occupation.-The immigrants are for the most part unskilled labourers.

  • Unlike their Papuan relatives, the islanders are unskilled in carving and pottery, but are clever farmers and fishermen, constructing ingenious fishing weirs.

  • They are composed principally of peasants, unskilled workmen and other manual laborers.

  • This depression was in considerable measure due to, and was largely aggravated by, the comparative inactivity of the Rand mines, and that inactivity was due in turn to the insufficiency of native labour - Kaffirs being employed to do all the unskilled work on the mines.

  • In many towns most of the skilled labourers and a great many of the unskilled (for instance, the grain-porters at Odessa and elsewhere) are Jews.

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