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Date "UNSKILFUL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Crosswords: UNSKILFUL |
| Etymologies containing "UNSKILFUL": unskillful. (references) |
| "UNSKILFUL" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "UNSKILFUL" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "UNSKILFUL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | jo i zoti (unartful), i paaftë (bumbling, disabled, guiltless, helpless, impaired, impotent, inapt, incapable, incompetent, inefficient, inept, muff, spado, unable, weak). (various references) | |
Arabic | غير بارع (amateurish, artless, bungling, clumsy, inapt, inferior, profane, unskilled, unworkmanlike). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | несръчен (all thumbs, awkward, blundering, bungling, butterfingered, clumsy, heavy-handed, inept, left handed, maladroit, two-fisted, unapt, untoward), непохватен (artless, awkward, bumbling, chuckle, clumsy, gawky, heavy, lubberly, two-fisted, uncouth, ungainly, unhandy). (various references) | |
Finnish | taitamaton (a poor hand, clumsy, incompetent, inexperienced, poor, unskilled), taidoton. (various references) | |
French | maladroit (unwieldy). (various references) | |
German | ungeschickt (awkward, awkwardly, clownish, clumsy, gauche, gauchely, implausible, inapt, inept, inexpertly, maladroit, schlemiel, unadept, unfortunate, unfortunately, unhandily, unintelligent, unskilfully, unskilled, unskillful, unskillfully), unbeholfen (awkward, clumsy, gauche, gauchely, gawky, helpless, inept, putter, uncouth, ungainly, unskilfully, unskillful, unskillfully, unwieldy, wooden). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ügyetlen (awkward, blundering, clumsy, freshwater, fumbling, gawky, gimp, half-assed, impolitic, inexpert, left handed, lumpish, maladroit, uneasy, unhandy, unskillful). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 不味い (awkward, bungling, ugly, unappetising, unpleasant, untimely, unwise). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | まずい (awkward, bungling, ugly, unappetising, unpleasant, untimely, unwise). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ilfulunskay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sem treino, inexperiente (artless, callow, fresh, green, half-baked, inexperienced, muff, outage, raw, shirt-sleeve, sucking, unpractised, unskilled, unsophisticated, untrained, verdant, young), inábil (awkward, maladroit, muff), desajeitado (awkward, backhanded, blundering, boorish, bulky, bumbling, chuckle, cloddish, clownish, clumsy, cubbish, floppy, fumbling, gawky, graceless, hawbuck, hobbledehoy, homely, hulking, ill-favored, ill-favoured, ill-mannered, inexpert, left-handed, lout, loutish, low-bred, lubber, lubberly, maladroit, muff, shiftless, uncouth, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unwieldy, wooden). (various references) | |
Romanian | stângaci (artless, awkward, awkwardly, bearish, clumsy, gawky, hulking, left handed, left-handed man, loose, lubber, lubberly, lumpish, maladroit, numb hand, splay, uncouth, uncouthly, ungainly, unskilfully, unwieldy), nepriceput (blockhead, illiterate, incapable, inefficient, inexperienced, inexpert, novice, silly, slouch, unskilled), neîndemânatic (awkward, awkwardly, buckram, butter fingers, butter-fingered, clumsily, clumsy, fumbling, gawky, inapt, left handed, lubberly, maladroit, uncouth, ungainly, unversed). (various references) | |
Russian | неуклюжий (bulky, bumbling, cack-handed, chuckle, cloddish, clumsy, clunky, cubbish, gangly, gawky, goon, hamfisted, ham-fisted, heavy-handed, hulking, left handed, lout, lubberly, maladroit, oafish, splay, two-fisted, uncouth, ungainly, unhandy, unwieldy), неумелый (amateurish, atechnic, blundering, bumbling, inapt, inexpert, muff, shiftless), неискусный (artless, inartful, inexpert, unartful, unskillful). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nevešt (clumsy, inapt, maladroit, unaccomplished, unhandy, unskilled). (various references) | |
Spanish | inexperto (amateurish, callow, inexperienced, inexpert, unskilled, unskillful, untrained). (various references) | |
Turkish | yeteneksiz (helpless, inapt, ineffective, inept, talentless, unendowed, untalented), beceriksiz (awkward, bungler, bungling, clumsy, Duff, duffer, feckless, flat-footed, fumbling, gauche, gawky, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, helpless, impractical, inapt, incompetent, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inept, inexpert, left handed, lubber, maladroit, manque, ne'er do well, never-do-well, oaf, oafish, resourceless, rude, shiftless, slouch, unaccomplished, unhandy, untalented). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | невмілий (artless, blundering, botchy, bungling, fumbling, handless, ineffective, inept, inexpert, unskilled), незграбний (angular, artless, awkward, blundering, bouncing, bovine, clumsy, cubbish, cumbersome, fumbling, gangling, gauche, gawky, gnarled, graceless, ham-fisted, hulking, lob, lubberly, maladroit, oafish, shamble, splay, splayfooted, uncouth, ungainly, wooden). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vụng (artless, clumsy, unhandy, unworkmanlike), không khéo (unskilled, untutored, unworkmanlike). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Hebrews Chapter 5, Verse 13 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | PaV gar o metecwn galaktoV apeiroV logou dikaiosunhV nhpioV gar estin |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Omnis enim qui lactis est particeps expers est sermonis iustitiae parvulus enim est |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | For ech that is parcenere of mylk, is with out part of the word of riytwisnesse, for he is a litil child. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | For every man that is feed with mylke is inexperte in the worde of rightewesnes. For he is but a babe. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | For every one that useth milk, is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | For everyone who takes milk is without experience of the word of righteousness: he is a child. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Hebrews Chapter 5, Verse 13 |
| Cebuano | kay ang matag-usa nga gibuhi pa ug gatas dili batid sa pulong sa pagkamatarung, kay masuso pa man siya. |
| Chinese | 凡 只 能 喫 奶 的 、 都 不 熟 練 仁 義 的 " 理 ． 為 他 是 嬰 孩 。 |
| Croatian | Doista, tko je god još pri mlijeku, ne zna ništa o nauku pravednosti jer - nejaèe je. |
| Danish | Thi hver, som får Mælk, er ukyndig i den rette Tale, thi han er spæd; |
| Dutch | Want een iegelijk, die der melk deelachtig is, die is onervaren in het woord der gerechtigheid; want hij is een kind. |
| Finnish | Sillä jokainen, joka vielä nauttii maitoa, on kokematon vanhurskauden sanassa, sillä hän on lapsi; |
| French | Or, quiconque en est au lait n`a pas l`expérience de la parole de justice; car il est un enfant. |
| German | Denn wem man noch Milch geben muß, der ist unerfahren in dem Wort der Gerechtigkeit; denn er ist ein junges Kind. |
| Haitian Creole | Se timoun ki nan bwè lèt, paske timoun pa gen kont esperyans pou konnen sa ki bon ak sa ki pa bon. |
| Hungarian | Mert mindaz, a ki tejjel él, járatlan az igazságnak beszédiben, mivelhogy kiskorú: |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Orang yang masih minum susu, berarti ia masih bayi; ia belum punya pengalaman tentang apa yang benar dan apa yang salah. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Karena masing-masing yang menyusu itu, tiada paham akan perkataan dari hal hakekat, sebab ia kanak-kanak. |
| Italian | Ora, chi si nutre ancora di latte è ignaro della dottrina della giustizia, perché è ancora un bambino. |
| Latvian | Jo katrs, kas vçl ar pienu barojams, taisnîbas vârdu nesaprot, jo tas ir bçrns. |
| Maori | Ko nga tangata katoa hoki e kai ana i te waiu, he kuware ratou ki te kupu o te tika, he kohungahunga hoki. |
| Norwegian | For hver den som får melk, er ukyndig i rettferds ord, for han er jo et barn; |
| Portuguese | Ora, qualquer que se alimenta de leite é inexperiente na palavra da justiça, pois é criança; |
| Rumanian | Wi oricine nu se hrqnewte deckt cu lapte, nu este obicinuit cu cuvkntul despre neprihqnire, cqci este un prunc. |
| Russian | чУСЛЙК, ЙФБЕНЩК НПМПЛПН, ОЕУЧЕ"ХЭ Ч УМПЧЕ ТБЧ"Щ, ПФПНХ ЮФП ПО НМБ"ЕОЕ"; |
| Shuar | Kuírchikia Uwempratin Chichaman áujenak pénker unuimiainiatsui. Tinkiamnumia ásar tujintiainiawai. |
| Spanish | Pues todo el que se alimenta de leche no es capaz de entender la palabra de la justicia, porque aún es niño. |
| Swahili | Kila anayepaswa kunywa maziwa huyo ni mtoto bado, hajui uadilifu ni nini. |
| Swedish | Men om någon är sådan att han ännu måste leva av mjölk, då är han oskicklig att förstå en undervisning om rättfärdighet; han är ju ännu ett barn. |
| Uma | Tauna to ntii' -hawo-le, ana'lei-ra-pidi. Batua-na, ko'ia monoto nono-ra mpoposisala napa to makono pai' napa to sala'. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-i-k-l-l-n-s-u-u" | |
-2 letters: skilful, skinful. | |
-3 letters: flunks, sinful. | |
-4 letters: fills, finks, flunk, fulls, funks, fusil, kills, kilns, links, lulus, lunks, nills, nulls, skill, skull, slink, slunk. | |
-5 letters: fill, fils, fink, fins, flus, full, funk, funs, ilks, ills, inks, kifs, kill, kiln, kins, link, lins, lulu, lunk, nill, nils, null, silk, sill, sink, skin, sulk, sulu, sunk, ulus. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-i-k-l-l-n-s-u-u" | |
+1 letter: unskillful. | |
+3 letters: unskillfully. | |
+5 letters: unskillfulness. | |
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