not having or requiring any special skill or training: unskilled workers, an unskilled job having or displaying no skill; inexpert
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un•skilled /ʌnˈskɪld/USA pronunciation
adj.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- relating to workers who lack special skills:unskilled labor.
- not demanding special training or skill:unskilled jobs.
- showing or having a lack of skill:an unskilled painting.
un•skilled
(un skild′),USA pronunciation adj.
- of or pertaining to workers who lack technical training or skill.
- not demanding special training or skill:unskilled occupations.
- exhibiting a marked lack of skill or competence:an unskilled painting; an unskilled writer.
- not skilled or expert:He was unskilled in the art of rhetoric.
- un-1 + skilled 1575–85
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'unskilled' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
D
- amateur
- automate
- badly
- bohunk
- bush carpenter
- coolie
- day labor
- day laborer
- day labourer
- fresh
- freshwater
- grunt
- handlanger
- hard cheese
- hobo
- hunky
- inert
- inexperienced
- inexpert
- jackleg
- labourer
- lubber
- lumpenproletariat
- navvy
- peon
- proficient
- raw
- rouseabout
- roustabout
- semiskilled
- skill-less
- slushy
- stoop labor
- unemployment
- unskilled labor
- workingman
- worst