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unskilled

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un·skilled  (n-skld)
adj.
1. Lacking skill or technical training: unskilled laborers.
2. Requiring no training or skill: unskilled jobs; unskilled labor.
3. Exhibiting a lack of skill; inexpert: an unskilled painting.
unskilled
Adjective
not having or requiring any special skill or training
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.unskilledunskilled - 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"
incompetent - not qualified or suited for a purpose; "an incompetent secret service"; "the filming was hopeless incompetent"
inexperienced, inexperient - lacking practical experience or training
skilled - having or showing or requiring special skill; "only the most skilled gymnasts make an Olympic team"; "a skilled surgeon has many years of training and experience"; "a skilled reconstruction of her damaged elbow"; "a skilled trade"
2.unskilledunskilled - lacking professional skill or expertise; "a very amateurish job"; "inexpert but conscientious efforts"; "an unskilled painting"
amateurish, inexpert, amateur
unprofessional - not characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession; "described in unprofessional language so that high school students could understand it"; "was censured for unprofessional conduct"; "unprofessional repairs"
3.unskilledunskilled - not doing a good job; "incompetent at chess"
incompetent
bad - having undesirable or negative qualities; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice"
unskilled
adjective unprofessional, inexperienced, unqualified, untrained, uneducated, amateurish, cowboy (informal) untalented << OPPOSITE skilled
Translations
unskilled [ʌnˈskɪld] adj unskilled workers → mano f de obra no cualificada
unskilled [ʌnˈskɪld] adj unskilled worker → manœuvre m
unskilled [ʌnˈskɪld] adj [work, worker] → ungelernt
unskilled [ʌnˈskɪld] adj unskilled worker → manovale m


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The sale of their products so brought down prices that farming was ruined, and their skilled and unskilled labour drove the artisans and labourers into the almshouses and highways.
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Freddie Drummond was a professor in the Sociology Department of the University of California, and it was as a professor of sociology that he first crossed over the Slot, lived for six mouths in the great labour-ghetto, and wrote The Unskilled Labourer--a book that was hailed everywhere as an able contribution to the literature of progress, and as a splendid reply to the literature of discontent.
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