unskilled

Meanings

Adjective

• not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency
  • "unskilled in the art of rhetoric"
  • "unskilled labor"
  • "workers in unskilled occupations are finding fewer and fewer job opportunities"
  • "unskilled workmanship"

Adjective Satellite

• lacking professional skill or expertise
  • "an unskilled painting"
• not doing a good job

Adj

• Of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training.
• Of a job: not requiring skill or training.
• Of a made object: inexpertly made or showing a lack of skill.

Synonyms

amateur, amateurish, backwards, bad, bungling, clumsy, ham-fisted, ham-handed, inapt, incapable, incompetent, inept, inexpert, maladroit, miserable, unable, unprofessional, unqualified, unskillful

Antonyms

skilled

Related Words

inexperienced, skill, unskilful, unskilled person, unskillful