unskillful

3 definitions found

unskillful - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Unskillful \Un*skill"ful\, a. [Spelt also unskilful.]
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     1. Not skillful; inexperienced; awkward; bungling; as, an
        unskillful surgeon or mechanic; an unskillful logician.
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     2. Lacking discernment; injudicious; ignorant.
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              Though it make the unskillful laugh, can not but
              make the judicious grieve.            --Shak.
        [1913 Webster] -- Un*skill"ful*ly, adv. --
        Un*skill"ful*ness, n.
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unskillful - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  unskillful
      adj 1: poorly done; "a botchy piece of work"; "it was an
             unskillful attempt" [syn: botchy, butcherly,
             unskillful]

unskillful - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  72 Moby Thesaurus words for "unskillful":
     alert, artless, bad, base, black, criminal, deficient, evil,
     half-assed, ill, imperfect, improper, inaccurate, inadept,
     inadequate, inapt, inattentive, inauspicious, incapable,
     incompetent, inefficient, inept, inexpedient, inexpert, inferior,
     insufficient, invalid, little, maladroit, malevolent, mean,
     mediocre, not comparable, not in it, open-eyed, out of it, peccant,
     pedestrian, petty, poor, shabby, sinful, sinister, skill-less,
     small, thoughtless, trivial, unapt, undeft, undexterous,
     undextrous, unfacile, unfavorable, unfitted, unhandy, unhealthy,
     unintelligent, unkind, unpleasant, unproficient, unqualified,
     unready, unskilled, unsleeping, untoward, unworkmanlike, vicious,
     vigilant, wakeful, wicked, wide-awake, wrong