| unskilled | | |
| adj. | 1. unskilled | not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency.; "unskilled in the art of rhetoric"; "an enthusiastic but unskillful mountain climber"; "unskilled labor"; "workers in unskilled occupations are finding fewer and fewer job opportunities"; "unskilled workmanship" |
| ~ incompetent | not qualified or suited for a purpose.; "an incompetent secret service"; "the filming was hopeless incompetent" |
| ~ inexperienced, inexperient | lacking practical experience or training. |
| ~ artless | showing lack of art.; "an artless translation" |
| ~ botchy, butcherly, unskillful | poorly done.; "a botchy piece of work"; "it was an unskillful attempt" |
| ~ botched, bungled | spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness.; "a bungled job" |
| ~ bungling, fumbling, incompetent, clumsy | showing lack of skill or aptitude.; "a bungling workman"; "did a clumsy job"; "his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf" |
| ~ crude, rough | not carefully or expertly made.; "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry" |
| ~ hopeless | of a person unable to do something skillfully.; "I'm hopeless at mathematics" |
| ~ menial, humble, lowly | used of unskilled work (especially domestic work). |
| ~ lubberly | clumsy and unskilled.; "a big stupid lubberly fellow" |
| ~ out of practice, rusty | impaired in skill by neglect. |
| ~ semiskilled | possessing or requiring limited skills.; "semiskilled dockworkers"; "a semiskilled job" |
| ~ weak | deficient or lacking in some skill.; "he's weak in spelling" |
| adj. | 2. amateur, amateurish, inexpert, unskilled | lacking professional skill or expertise.; "a very amateurish job"; "inexpert but conscientious efforts"; "an unskilled painting" |
| ~ unprofessional | not characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession.; "described in unprofessional language so that high school students could understand it"; "was censured for unprofessional conduct"; "unprofessional repairs" |
| adj. | 3. incompetent, unskilled | not doing a good job.; "incompetent at chess" |
| ~ bad | having undesirable or negative qualities.; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice" |
| wit | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. humor, humour, wit, witticism, wittiness | a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter. |
| ~ subject matter, content, message, substance | what a communication that is about something is about. |
| ~ jeu d'esprit | a witty comment or writing. |
| ~ bon mot, mot | a clever remark. |
| ~ esprit de l'escalier | a witty remark that occurs to you too late. |
| ~ pungency, bite | wit having a sharp and caustic quality.; "he commented with typical pungency"; "the bite of satire" |
| ~ caustic remark, irony, sarcasm, satire | witty language used to convey insults or scorn.; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own" |
| ~ repartee | adroitness and cleverness in reply. |
| ~ gag, jape, jest, joke, laugh | a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter.; "he told a very funny joke"; "he knows a million gags"; "thanks for the laugh"; "he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest"; "even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point" |
| ~ caricature, impersonation, imitation | a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect. |
| ~ cartoon, sketch | a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine. |
| ~ fun, sport, play | verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously).; "he became a figure of fun"; "he said it in sport" |
| ~ ribaldry | ribald humor. |
| ~ topper | an exceedingly good witticism that surpasses all that have gone before. |
| ~ libation | (facetious) a serving of an alcoholic beverage. |
| ~ roaster | a harsh or humorous critic (sometimes intended as a facetious compliment).; "the honoree gave his roasters as good as he got" |
| n. (cognition) | 2. brain, brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, wit | mental ability.; "he's got plenty of brains but no common sense" |
| ~ intelligence | the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience. |
| n. (person) | 3. card, wag, wit | a witty amusing person who makes jokes. |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ humorist, humourist | someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way. |
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