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Definition: Unskillful |
UnskillfulAdjective1. Poorly done; "a botchy piece of work"; "it was an unskillful attempt". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unskillful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references) |
Note: Unskillful \Un*skill"ful\, adjective. [Spelt also unskilful.]. (references) |
Synonyms: UnskillfulSynonyms: botchy (adj), butcherly (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inexpedience | Unadvisable; (inexpedient); unprofitable; (useless); incompetent; (unskillful); irremediable; (hopeless). |
Inutility | Adjective: useless, inutile, inefficacious, futile, unavailing, bootless; inoperative; inadequate; (insufficient); inservient, unsubservient; inept, inefficient; (impotent); of no avail; (use); ineffectual; (failure); incompetent; (unskillful); " stale, flat and unprofitable"; superfluous; (redundant); dispensable; thrown away; (wasted); abortive; (immature). |
Rashness | Donner tete baissee; knock, one's bead against a wall; (be unskillful); rush on destruction; kick against the pricks, tempt Providence, go on a forlorn hope, go on a fool's errand. |
Unskillfulness | Verb: be unskillful; Adjective: not see an inch beyond one's nose; blunder, bungle, boggle, fumble, botch, bitch, flounder, stumble, trip; hobble; put one's foot in it; make a mess of, make hash of, make sad work of; overshoot the mark. |
Adjective: unskillful; inexpert; bungling;Verb: awkward, clumsy, unhandy, lubberly, gauche, maladroit; left-handed, heavy-handed; slovenly, slatternly; gawky. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unskillful |
| English words defined with "unskillful": botchy, butcherly ♦ daub ♦ False passage ♦ misplay ♦ Unfeaty, unskilled. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "unskillful": malapert. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
William Shakespeare | Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
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| Expression | Frequency per Day |
unskillful | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unskillful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Czech | nezkušený (green, inexperienced, raw, unseasoned, unworldly), neobratný (clumsy, maladroit, ungainly, unhandy), nemotorný (awkward, bumbling, clumsy, elephantine, gauche, gawky, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, oafish, ungainly), nešikovný (awkward, butter-fingered, clumsy, ham-fisted, ham-handed, inept, maladroit, unwieldy). (various references) | |
French | malhabile (unhandily). (various references) | |
German | ungeschickt (awkward, awkwardly, clownish, clumsy, gauche, gauchely, implausible, inapt, inept, inexpertly, maladroit, schlemiel, unadept, unfortunate, unfortunately, unhandily, unintelligent, unskilful, unskilfully, unskilled, unskillfully). (various references) | |
Greek | άτεχνος (artless), ανεπιτήδειοσ, αδέξιοσ (awkward, clownish, clumsy, dabbler, gauche, heavy-handed, inapt, loutish, lubberly, lumpish, lumpy, maladroit, skilless, slouch, squirt, unapt, ungainly, unhandy). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ügyetlen (awkward, blundering, clumsy, freshwater, fumbling, gawky, gimp, half-assed, impolitic, inexpert, left handed, lumpish, maladroit, uneasy, unhandy, unskilful). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 稚拙 (childish), 拙劣 (clumsy), 拙い (clumsy, foolish, unlucky). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | つたない (clumsy, foolish, unlucky), せつれつ (clumsy), へた (awkward, calyx, poor, stem), ちせつ (childish). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | illfulunskay.(various references) | |
Russian | неискусный (artless, inartful, inexpert, unartful, unskilful). (various references) | |
Spanish | inexperto (amateurish, callow, inexperienced, inexpert, unskilful, unskilled, untrained), desgraciado (clumsy, loser, miserable, poor, sad sack, schlemiel, skate, unfortunate, unhandily, unhappy, unlucky, wretch). (various references) | |
Welsh | anhylaw (evil, unhandy, unwieldy), anghywrain (slovenly), anghywair (discordant, disrepair, ill-equipped, sloven), anghelfydd (clumsy), anfedrus. (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. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "unskillful": unskillfully, unskillfulness, unskillfulnesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "unskillful" (pronounced 'Un*skill"ful'): Abuseful, Affrightful, Aidful, Amazeful, Amendful, Annoyful, Armful, Artful, Assistful, Avengeful, Aviseful, Awful, Baleful, Baneful, Barful, Bashful, Bateful, Batful, Beamful, Behooveful, Beliefful, Blameful, Blissful, Blitheful, Blushful, Boastful, Boatful, Bodeful, Bookful, Breathful, Bretful, Brimful, Capful, Careful, Causeful, Chanceful, Changeful, Chargeful, Charmful, Cheerful, Choiceful, Complaintful, Contentful, Corruptful, Crimeful, Cropful, Cupful, Dareful, Darkful, Deathful. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-i-k-l-l-l-n-s-u-u" | |
-2 letters: skillful. | |
-3 letters: skilful, skinful. | |
-4 letters: flunks, sinful. | |
-5 letters: fills, finks, flunk, fulls, funks, fusil, kills, kilns, links, lulls, lulus, lunks, nills, nulls, skill, skull, slink, slunk. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-i-k-l-l-l-n-s-u-u" | |
+2 letters: unskillfully. | |
+4 letters: unskillfulness. | |
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