What does Unskilled mean?

Definitions for Unskilled
ʌnˈskɪldun·skilled

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. unskilledadjective

    not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency

    "unskilled in the art of rhetoric"; "an enthusiastic but unskillful mountain climber"; "unskilled labor"; "workers in unskilled occupations are finding fewer and fewer job opportunities"; "unskilled workmanship"

  2. amateurish, amateur, inexpert, unskilledadjective

    lacking professional skill or expertise

    "a very amateurish job"; "inexpert but conscientious efforts"; "an unskilled painting"

  3. incompetent, unskilledadjective

    not doing a good job

    "incompetent at chess"

Wiktionary

  1. unskilledadjective

    Of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training.

  2. unskilledadjective

    Of a job: not requiring skill or training.

  3. unskilledadjective

    Of a made object: inexpertly made or showing a lack of skill.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Unskilledadjective

    Wanting skill; wanting knowledge.

    Unskill’d in Hellebore, if thou shouldst try
    To mix it, and mistake the quantity,
    The rules of physick would against thee cry. Dryden.

    Unskill’d and young, yet something still I writ,
    Of Ca’ndish beauty, join’d to Cecil’s wit. Matthew Prior.

    Not eastern monarchs on their nuptial day,
    In dazzling gold and purple shine so gay,
    As the bright natives of th’ unlabour’d field,
    Unvers’d in spinning, and in looms unskill’d. Richard Blackmore.

    Poets, like painters, thus unskill’d to trace
    The naked nature, and the living grace,
    With gold and jewels cover every part,
    And hide with ornaments their want of art. Alexander Pope.

ChatGPT

  1. unskilled

    Unskilled refers to a person or type of work that doesn't require any particular training, education, skills, certification, or experience. It typically involves simple, often manual tasks that can be quickly learned. Unskilled work tends to have lower pay rates when compared to skilled work.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Unskilled in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Unskilled in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of Unskilled in a Sentence

  1. John Anthony Ciardi:

    Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.

  2. Sung Won Sohn:

    Up until now we have had people rejoining the labor force, which allowed businesses to hire people, especially at the unskilled and semi-skilled level, there are signs that well could be running dry.

  3. Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun:

    The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.

  4. Nichole Georgeou:

    There's this idea that is in-built in voluntourism that we in the West have the knowledge and the skills to make a difference, we have a right to make a difference, it doesn't even matter if we're unskilled, it's just the good will that matters because we're somehow bonding anyway.

  5. Brooks Atkinson:

    Don't condescend to unskilled labor. Try it for half a day first.

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