Word Meanings - UNSKILLFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Not skillful; inexperienced; awkward; bungling; as, an unskillful surgeon or mechanic; an unskillful logician. 2. Lacking discernment; injudicious; ignorant. Though it make the unskillful laugh, can not but make the judicious grieve. Shak. --

Additional info about word: UNSKILLFUL

1. Not skillful; inexperienced; awkward; bungling; as, an unskillful surgeon or mechanic; an unskillful logician. 2. Lacking discernment; injudicious; ignorant. Though it make the unskillful laugh, can not but make the judicious grieve. Shak. -- Un*skill"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*skill"ful*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UNSKILLFUL)

• Clumsy
• Awkward
• inexpert
• uncouth
• maladroit
• botching
• bungling
• unskillful
• unwieldly
• unhandy
• ill-shaped

Related words: (words related to UNSKILLFUL)

• AWKWARD SQUAD
  A squad of inapt recruits assembled for special drill.
• BOTCH
  1. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton. 2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner. 3. Work done in a bungling
• BUNGLING
  Unskillful; awkward; clumsy; as, a bungling workman. Swift. They make but bungling work. Dryden.
• BUNGLER
  A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles. If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such! Barrow.
• INEXPERT
  1. Destitute of experience or of much experience. Milton. 2. Not expert; not skilled; destitute of knowledge or dexterity derived from practice. Akenside.
• BOTCHERY
  A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.
• UNSKILLFUL
  1. Not skillful; inexperienced; awkward; bungling; as, an unskillful surgeon or mechanic; an unskillful logician. 2. Lacking discernment; injudicious; ignorant. Though it make the unskillful laugh, can not but make the judicious grieve. Shak. --
• BUNGLE
  To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.
• BOTCHERLY
  Bungling; awkward.
• BOTCHER
  A young salmon; a grilse. (more info) 1. One who mends or patches, esp. a tailor or cobbler. Shak. 2. A clumsy or careless workman; a bungler.
• BUNGLINGLY
  Clumsily; awkwardly.
• BOTCHEDLY
  In a clumsy manner.
• MALADROIT
  Of a quality opposed to adroitness; clumsy; awkward; unskillful. -- Mal"a*droit`ly, adv. -- Mal`a*droit"ness, n.
• CLUMSY
  benumbed, fr. clumsen to be benumbed; cf. Icel. klumsa lockjaw, dial. 1. Stiff or benumbed, as with cold. 2. Without skill or grace; wanting dexterity, nimbleness, or readiness; stiff; awkward, as if benumbed; unwieldy; unhandy; hence; ill-made,
• UNHANDY
  Clumsy; awkward; as, an Unhandy man.
• UNCOUTH
  Un- not) + c known, p. p. of cunnan to know. See Can to be able, and 1. Unknown. "This uncouth errand." Milton. To leave the good that I had in hand, In hope of better that was uncouth. Spenser. 2. Uncommon; rare; exquisite; elegant. Harness
• INEXPERTNESS
  Want of expertness or skill.
• AWKWARD
  1. Wanting dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments; not dexterous; without skill; clumsy; wanting ease, grace, or effectiveness in movement; ungraceful; as, he was awkward at a trick; an awkward boy. And dropped an awkward courtesy.
• BOTCHY
  Marked with botches; full of botches; poorly done. "This botchy business." Bp. Watson.