Synonyms of the word

unskilled

• adj. Of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training.
• adj. Of a job: not requiring skill or training.
• adj. Of a made object: inexpertly made or showing a lack of skill.

amateur

• n. (now rare) A lover of something.
• n. A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; especially one who…
• n. Someone who is unqualified or insufficiently skillful.
• adj. Non-professional.
• adj. Created, done, or populated by amateurs or non-professionals.
• adj. Showing a lack of professionalism, experience or talent.

amateurish

• adj. Suggesting or reflecting the efforts of an amateur; not seeming professional or polished.

artless

• adj. Having or displaying no guile, cunning, or deceit.
• adj. Free of artificiality; natural.
• adj. Lacking art, knowledge, or skill; uncultured and ignorant.
• adj. Poorly made or done; crude.

bad

• adj. Not good; unfavorable; negative.
• adj. Not suitable or fitting.
• adj. Seemingly non-appropriate, in manners, etc.
• adj. Unhealthy.
• adj. Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
• adj. Evil; wicked.
• adj. Faulty; not functional.
• adj. (of food) Spoiled, rotten, overripe.
• adj. (of breath) Malodorous, foul.
• adj. (informal) Bold and daring.
• adj. (hip-hop slang) good, superlative.
• adj. (of a need or want) Severe, urgent.
• adv. (now colloquial) Badly.
• n. (slang) Error, mistake.
• n. (countable, uncountable, economics) An item (or kind of item) of merchandise with negative value; an unwanted…
• adj. (slang) Fantastic.
• v. (archaic) Alternative past tense of bid. See bade.
• v. (Britain, dialect, transitive) To shell (a walnut).

botched

• v. simple past tense and past participle of botch.
• adj. clumsily made or repaired in an unacceptable or incompetent manner.

botchy

• adj. Full of botches or mistakes; poorly done.

bungled

• v. simple past tense and past participle of bungle.

bungling

• adj. Incompetent or inept.
• n. An act or acts of incompetence or ineptitude.
• v. present participle of bungle.

butcherly

• adj. Like a butcher; characterised by slaughter, savage.
• adv. (obsolete) Like a butcher; cruelly, brutally.

clumsy

• adj. awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous.
• adj. Not elegant or well-planned, lacking tact or subtlety.
• adj. awkward or inefficient in use or construction, difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape.
• n. (informal, fairly rare) A clumsy person.

crude

• adj. Being in a natural state.
• adj. Characterized by simplicity, especially something not carefully or expertly made.
• adj. Lacking concealing elements.
• adj. Lacking tact or taste.
• adj. (statistics) Being in an unanalyzed form.
• adj. (archaic) Immature or unripe.
• adj. (grammar) pertaining to the uninflected stem of a word.
• n. Any substance in its natural state.
• n. Crude oil.

fumbling

• v. present participle of fumble.
• n. An instance of clumsiness, especially of the hands or fingers.

hopeless

• adj. Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.
• adj. Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate.
• adj. Without talent, not skilled.

humble

• adj. not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.
• adj. Thinking lowly of oneself; claiming little for oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest.
• v. To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humiliate.
• v. To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiency of;…
• adj. hornless.

incompetent

• adj. Unskilled, lacking normally expected degree of ability.
• adj. Unable to make rational decisions, insane or otherwise cognitively impaired.
• adj. (medicine) an incompetent cervix is one that opens too early in pregnancy, provoking the baby to be born.
• n. A person who is incompetent.

inexperienced

• adj. Not experienced; lacking knowledge or experience; green.
• adj. Virginal or lacking in personal knowledge and experiences of sex.

inexpert

• adj. Inept or unskilled; not of expert ability or quality.
• n. An inept or unskilled person.

lowly

• adj. Not high; not elevated in place; low.
• adj. Low in rank or social importance.
• adj. Not lofty or sublime; humble.
• adj. Having a low esteem of one's own worth; humble; meek; free from pride.
• adv. In a low manner; humbly; meekly; modestly.
• adv. In a low condition; meanly.

lubberly

• adj. Clumsy and stupid; resembling a lubber (an inexperienced person).
• adj. Lacking in seamanship; of or suitable to a landlubber who is new to being at sea and unfamiliar with the…
• adv. In the manner of a landlubber.

menial

• adj. Of or relating to work normally performed by a servant.
• adj. Of or relating to unskilled work.
• adj. Servile; low; mean.
• n. A servant, especially a domestic servant.
• n. A person who has a subservient nature.

rough

• adj. Having a texture that has much friction. Not smooth; uneven.
• adj. Approximate; hasty or careless; not finished.
• adj. Turbulent.
• adj. Difficult; trying.
• adj. Crude; unrefined.
• adj. Violent; not careful or subtle.
• adj. Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating.
• adj. Not polished; uncut; said of a gem.
• adj. Harsh-tasting.
• n. The unmowed part of a golf course.
• n. A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.
• n. (cricket) A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by…
• n. The raw material from which faceted or cabochon gems are created.
• n. A quick sketch, similar to a thumbnail, but larger and more detailed. Meant for artistic brainstorming…
• n. (obsolete) Boisterous weather.
• v. To create in an approximate form.
• v. (ice hockey) To commit the offense of roughing, i.e. to punch another player.
• v. To render rough; to roughen.
• v. To break in (a horse, etc.), especially for military purposes.
• adv. In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.

rusty

• adj. Marked or corroded by rust.
• adj. Of the rust color, reddish or reddish-brown.
• adj. Lacking recent experience, out of practice, especially with respect to a skill or activity.
• adj. (now chiefly historical) Of clothing, especially dark clothing: worn, shabby.
• adj. Discolored and rancid; reasty.

semiskilled

• adj. Partially trained or experienced, not yet meeting the expected level of skill.

unprofessional

• adj. unbecoming of a professional; hence inappropriate in the workplace.
• n. One who is not a professional.

unskillful

• adj. Not skillful.

weak

• adj. Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.
• adj. Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain.
• adj. Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible;…
• adj. Dilute, lacking in taste or potency.
• adj. (grammar) Displaying a particular kind of inflection, including.
• adj. (chemistry) That does not ionize completely into anions and cations in a solution.
• adj. (physics) One of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay.
• adj. (slang) Bad or uncool.
• adj. (mathematics, logic) Having a narrow range of logical consequences; narrowly applicable. (Often contrasted…
• adj. Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.
• adj. Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained.
• adj. Lacking in vigour or expression.
• adj. Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.
• adj. (stock exchange) Tending towards lower prices.
• adj. (photography) Lacking contrast.