unskilled

English

Etymology

un- +‎ skilled

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪld

Adjective

unskilled (comparative more unskilled, superlative most unskilled)

1. Of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.

2. Of a job: not requiring skill or training.
3. Of a made object: inexpertly made or showing a lack of skill.

Translations

of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training

• Bengali: বেওয়াকেফ (beōẏakeph)
• Bulgarian: неквалифициран (nekvalificiran)
• Finnish: ammattitaidoton
• Greek: ανειδίκευτος (el) (aneidíkeftos)

  Ancient Greek: ἄτεχνος (átekhnos)

• Hungarian: szakképzetlen (hu), segéd- (hu)
• Italian: imperito (it), inesperto (it), incompetente (it), impreparato (it), sprovveduto (it)
• Latin: iners
• Maori: ninipa
• Tagalog: asiwa

See also

• unskilful, unskillful