unskillful

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: un=skill=ful

CIDE DICTIONARY

unskillful, a. [Spelt also unskilful.].

•  Not skillful; inexperienced; awkward; bungling; as, an unskillful surgeon or mechanic; an unskillful logician.  [1913 Webster]
•  Lacking discernment; injudicious; ignorant.  [1913 Webster]

  "Though it make the unskillful laugh, can not but make the judicious grieve."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

unskillful

Unskillfulness

N unskillfulness, want of skill, incompetence, incompentency, inability, infelicity, indexterity, inexperience, disqualification, unproficiency, quackery, folly, stupidity indiscretion, thoughtlessness, sabotage, mismanagement, misconduct, impolicy, maladministration, misrule, misgovernment, misapplication, misdirection, misfeasance, petticoat government, absence of rule, rule of thumb, bungling, failure, screw loose: too many cooks, blunder, etourderie gaucherie, act of folly, balourdise, botch, botchery, bad job, sad work, sprat sent out to catch a whale, much ado about nothing, wild- goose chase, bungler, fool, unskillful, inexpert, bungling, awkward, clumsy, unhandy, lubberly, gauche, maladroit, left-handed, heavy-handed, slovenly, slatternly, gawky, adrift, at fault, inapt, unapt, inhabile, untractable, unteachable, giddy, inconsiderate, stupid inactive, incompetent, unqualified, disqualified, ill-qualified, unfit, quackish, raw, green, inexperienced, rusty, out of practice, unaccustomed, unused, untrained &c, uninitiated, unconversant, shiftless, unstatesmanlike, unadvised, ill-advised, misadvised, ill-devised, ill-imagined, ill-judged, ill-contrived, ill-conducted, unguided, misguided, misconducted, foolish, wild, infelicitous, penny wise and pound foolish, one's fingers being all thumbs, the right hand forgets its cunning, il se noyerait dans une goutte d'eau, incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim, out of the frying pan into the fire, non omnia possumus omnes.