Synonyms: incompetent, unskilled
Definition: not doing a good job
Usage: incompetent at chess
Similar words: bad
Definition: having undesirable or negative qualities
Usage: 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
Synonyms: unskilled, amateur, amateurish, inexpert
Definition: lacking professional skill or expertise
Usage: a very amateurish job; inexpert but conscientious efforts; an unskilled painting
Similar words: unprofessional
Definition: not characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession
Usage: described in unprofessional language so that high school students could understand it; was censured for unprofessional conduct; unprofessional repairs
Synonyms: unskilled
Definition: not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency
Usage: 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
Similar words: artless
Definition: showing lack of art
Usage: an artless translation
Similar words: unskillful, butcherly, botchy
Definition: poorly done
Usage: a botchy piece of work; it was an unskillful attempt
Similar words: botched, bungled
Definition: spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness
Usage: a bungled job
Similar words: bungling, clumsy, incompetent, fumbling
Definition: showing lack of skill or aptitude
Usage: a bungling workman; did a clumsy job; his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf
Definition: not carefully or expertly made
Usage: managed to make a crude splint; a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them; rough carpentry
Similar words: hopeless
Definition: of a person unable to do something skillfully
Usage: I'm hopeless at mathematics
Similar words: humble, menial, lowly
Definition: used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)
Similar words: lubberly
Definition: clumsy and unskilled
Usage: a big stupid lubberly fellow
Similar words: rusty, out of practice
Definition: impaired in skill by neglect
Similar words: semiskilled
Definition: possessing or requiring limited skills
Usage: semiskilled dockworkers; a semiskilled job
Similar words: weak
Definition: deficient or lacking in some skill
Usage: he's weak in spelling