Synonyms for Unskilled

Synonyms for "unskilled" (96 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (20)

amateurish incompetent semiskilled unskillful a novice at a stranger to artless awkward botched bungling callow crude dabbling

Adjective(2 words)

amateur amateurish

Adjective(5 words)

amateurish backwards bad bungling clumsy

Strong matches (28)

dilettante dilettantish fresh green green as grass hopeless humble ignorant immature incapable inefficient inept inexperienced inexpert jackleg lubberly menial

Adjective(9 words)

ham-fisted ham-handed inapt incapable incompetent inept inexpert maladroit miserable

Adjective(2 words)

incompetent inexpert

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

7 relation types

More general

1 entries

lacking

Antonyms

1 entries

skilled

Synonyms

2 entries

amateurish incompetent

Related terms

5 entries

inexperienced skill unskilful unskilled person unskillful

derived from

1 entries

skilled

related to

10 entries

incompetent inexperienced inexpertly lack requiring showing skill technical training unskilful

similar

37 entries

artless bad blue-collar botched botchy bungled bungling butcherly clumsy crude fumbling hopeless

Showing 16 of 37 words.

Translations

22 translations across 13 languages.

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Ancient Greek

1 entries

ἄτεχνος adj (of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training)

Bengali

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বেওয়াকেফ adj (of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training)

Bulgarian

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неквалифициран adj (of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training)

Esperanto

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mallerta adj (of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training)

Finnish

1 entries

ammattitaidoton adj (of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training)

Greek

1 entries

ανειδίκευτος adj (of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training)

Hungarian

2 entries

segéd adj (of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training)
szakképzetlen adj (of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training)

Italian

4 entries

imperito adj (of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training)
impreparato adj (of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training)
incompetente adj (of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training)
inesperto adj (of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training)

Latin

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iners adj (of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training)

Māori

1 entries

ninipa adj (of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training)

Spanish

4 entries

inexperto adj (of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training)
inhábil adj (of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training)
no especializado adj (of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training)
sin cualificaciones adj (of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training)

Tagalog

1 entries

asiwa adj (of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training)

Turkish

2 entries

beceriksiz adj (of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training)
yeteneksiz adj (of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training)

Sample sentences

13 total sentences available.

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At that time, bicycles were just starting to get popular and, here and there, there were many unskilled beginners who ran into people and broke through their hedges.

Source: tatoeba (564161)

Unskilled labor is poorly paid.

Source: tatoeba (663003)

Peter works as an unskilled laborer.

Source: tatoeba (2230404)

"Me hath Fortune willed / long tost, like you, through sufferings, here to rest / and find at length a refuge. Not unskilled / in woe, I learn to succour the distrest."

Source: tatoeba (6797929)

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Unskilled