| Main Entry: | unskillful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not skilled |
Synonyms: |
amateurish, awkward, clumsy, gauche, inapt, inept, inexperienced, inexpert, maladroit, menial, unartful, unskilled |
Antonyms: |
skillful |
| Main Entry: | unskillful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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Adjectives: |
unskillful, adrift, ambilevous, ambisinistrous, at fault, awkward, blunderly, bungling, clodpolish, clumsy, cow-handed, disqualified, foolish, gauche, gawky, giddy, green, heavy-handed, ill-advised, ill-conducted, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-imagined, ill-judged, ill-qualified, inactive, inapt, incompetent, inconsiderate, inexperienced, inexpert, infelicitous, inhabile, jackleg, kitthoge, left-handed, lubberly, maladroit, misadvised, misconducted, misguided, out of practice, penny-wise and pound-foolish, quackish, raw, rusty, shiftless, slatternly, slovenly, stupid, unaccustomed, unadvised, unapt, unconversant, unfit, unguided, unhandy, uninitiated, unqualified, unstatesmanlike, unteachable, untractable, untrained, unused, wild
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| Main Entry: | awkward |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clumsy, inelegant |
Synonyms: |
all thumbs, amateurish, artless, blundering, bulky, bumbling, bungling, butterfingers, coarse, floundering, gawky, graceless, green*, having two left feet, having two left hands, incompetent, inept, inexpert, klutzy, lumbering, maladroit, oafish, rude, stiff, stumbling, uncoordinated, uncouth, unfit, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unpolished, unrefined, unskilled, unskillful |
Antonyms: |
adroit, artful, dexterous, elegant, graceful, handy, skillful |
| Main Entry: | clumsy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not agile; awkward |
Synonyms: |
all thumbs, blundering, blunderous, bulky, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, clownish, crude, elephantine, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, ham-handed, heavy, heavy-handed, helpless, hulking, ill-shaped, incompetent, inelegant, inept, inexperienced, inexpert, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, oafish, ponderous, splay, stumbling, unable, unadept, uncoordinated, uncouth, undexterous, uneasy, ungainly, unhandy, unskillful, untactful, untalented, untoward, unwieldy, weedy |
Antonyms: |
adroit, agile, athletic, clever, coordinated, couth, dexterous, expert, graceful |
| Main Entry: | crude |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vulgar, unpolished in manner |
Synonyms: |
awkward, backward, barnyard, boorish, cheap, cloddish, clumsy, coarse, crass, dirty, earthy, filthy, foul, grody, gross*, ignorant, ill-bred, indecent, indelicate, inelegant, insensible, lewd, loud, loud-mouthed, loutish, lowbred, oafish, obscene, raunchy*, raw, rough, rude, savage, smutty, tacky*, tactless, uncouth, unenlightened, ungainly, unskillful |
Antonyms: |
gentle, nice, polished, refined, tasteful |
| Main Entry: | green |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inexperienced |
Synonyms: |
callow, credulous, fresh, gullible, ignorant, immature, inexpert, ingenuous, innocent, naive, new, raw, tenderfoot, unconversant, unpolished, unpracticed, unseasoned, unskillful, unsophisticated, untrained, unversed, wet behind the ears, young, youthful |
Antonyms: |
experienced, expert, skilled |
| Main Entry: | incapable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not adequate; helpless |
Synonyms: |
butterfingers, disqualified, feeble, impotent, inadequate, incompetent, ineffective, ineligible, inept, inexperienced, inexpert, inproficient, insufficient, losing, naive, not equal to, not up to, poor, powerless, unable, uncool, unequipped, unfit, unqualified, unskilled, unskillful, unsuited, weak |
Antonyms: |
capable, competent, qualified, strong |
| Main Entry: | inefficient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not working well; wasteful |
Synonyms: |
can't hack it, careless, disorganized, extravagant, faulty, feeble, half-baked, improficient, improvident, incapable, incompetent, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inept, inexpert, not cut out for, prodigal, shooting blanks, slack, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, unfit, unprepared, unqualified, unskilled, unskillful, untrained, weak |
Antonyms: |
able, capable, competent, efficient, expert, useful |
| Main Entry: | inept |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clumsy, unskilled; incompetent |
Synonyms: |
all thumbs, artless, awkward, bumbling, bungling, butterfingers, gauche, halting, inadept, incapable, incompetent, inefficient, inexpert, loser, maladroit, unapt, undexterous, unfacile, ungraceful, unhandy, unproficient, unskillful, wooden |
Antonyms: |
able, adroit, competent, dexterous, fit, skilled, skillful |
| Main Entry: | maladroit |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | awkward, clumsy |
Synonyms: |
all thumbs, blundering, bumbling, bungling, clunky, floundering, gauche, halting, heavy-handed, inept, inexpert, klutzy, lumbering, stumbling, two left feet, ungraceful, unhandy, unskillful |
| Notes: | maladroit means clumsy or awkward or unskillful or inept; malapropos means unseasonable or unsuitable or inappropriate |
Antonyms: |
able, capable, skillful |