unskilled
unskilled
Definition
un·skilled (-skild′)
adjective
not skilled; specif.,
- having no special skill or training
- requiring or using no special skill or training unskilled labor
- showing a lack of skill
- unskeptical
unskilled
Synonyms
unskilled
Usage Examples
Used with adjective complement
- feel: Many workers,make a lot of assumptions about users and feel unskilled in working with them.
Infinitive complement
- tell: The charity needs fundraisers, equipment, researchers, and editors, skilled and unskilled to tell it like it is.
Modifies a noun
- laborer: Alternatively a boy could become an unskilled laborer which paid immediately higher wages.
- laborer: Others are farmers, fishermen, and unskilled laborers.
- labor: Once the demand for unskilled labor had gone, the people left the UK.
- labor: Second, we consider evidence from a middle income country with abundant unskilled labor.
- worker: How much does an unskilled worker receive annually at present?
- occupation: And men in unskilled occupations are four times more likely to commit suicide than professionals.
Modifying Another Word
- relatively: Design The tanks have been designed for construction by relatively unskilled workers.
- largely: To protect the jobs and wages of their members, trade unions insisted that the female dilutees did largely unskilled work.
- mainly: This is mainly unskilled work that is sought on a daily basis, mainly in construction and on other people's farms.
- mostly: The jobs were mostly unskilled and fairly low paid, and there were a few cases of self-employment.
- totally: Wages in the industry have been cut by 50 per cent since the 1980s and the workers are totally unskilled.
- not: I am not unskilled in prophesy, but have true knowledge.
Preposition: in
- art: My observation is that the majority of students -- from all backgrounds -- were a little inarticulate and unskilled in the art of discussion.
Browse dictionary entries near unskilled
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