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Unskillful

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Unskilled; inexpert.

adj. Obsolete Ignorant.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Not skillful.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Not skillful; inexperienced; awkward; bungling.

adj. Lacking discernment; injudicious; ignorant.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. poorly done

Word Usage

"We all do or say things that are "unskillful," to throw out a popular "Buddhistism" that I think too many people use without really understanding, but we can't stop living or speaking because we may break a precept or fail to practice "right speech.""

Equivalent

unskilled

Antonym

clever skillful

Variant

unskilful

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

inexperienced awkward bungling injudicious ignorant skilless clumsy poor ill inapt

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

unskilful inexpert unarisen near-death slangy inapt stylish-looking skillful gawky tenement-house