Meaning

3 senses
  1. Of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training.

    not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency

  2. Of a job: not requiring skill or training.

    not doing a good job

  3. Of a made object: inexpertly made or showing a lack of skill.

Examples

6 sentences
  1. Peter works as an unskilled laborer.

    ruПитер работает чернорабочим.

    dePeter ist als ungelernter Hilfsarbeiter tätig.

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  2. And you are an unskilled worker.

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  3. Thanks to the pandemic, we now know that "unskilled" workers are essential.

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  4. He was very unskilled at his job, so the manager fired him.

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  5. Unskilled labor is poorly paid.

    ruНеквалифицированный труд низко оплачивается.

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Translations

3 languages

Forms

more unskilled, most unskilled
Comparativemore unskilled Lesson
Superlativemost unskilled Lesson

regular

Synonyms

21 synonyms

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
unskilled — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto