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skilless, a.|ˈskɪllɪs|
Also 3 skilllæs, 9 skillless; 6 skilles, 6–7 skillesse, 6 skyllesse.
[f. skill n.1 + -less.]
1. Devoid of († reason or) knowledge; ignorant.
c1200Ormin 3715 Wiþþ mannkinn þatt wass stunnt, & dill, & skilllæs swa summ asse. 1561Norton & Sack. Gordobuc ii. ii, Lest skilles rage throwe doune with head⁓long fal Their lands. 1577Holinshed Chron. IV. 661 Writing the dooings of other persons in a toong wherein I am skillesse. 1601Shakes. Twel. N. iii. iii. 9 [Through] iealousie, what might befall your trauell, Being skillesse in these parts. 1627May Lucan x. (1631) 595 The skillesse people run Through the vast pallace scatter'd vp, and downe. 1814Cary Dante, Purg. ix. 100 A heavenly dame, not skilless of these things. 1818Keats Eudym. iii. 909 A little patience, youth! 'twill not be long, Or I am skilless quite.
2. Lacking skill; unskilled, unskilful.
1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 204 From cities ioy, to countrie care, To skillesse folke is homelie change. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iii. iii. 132 Like powder in a skillesse Souldiers flaske Is set a fire. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 55/1 Some young Phaeton; Whose skilless and unstaved Hand May prove the Ruin of the Land. a1661Fuller Worthies, Yorks. (1662) 203 But Swords and Guns have not made more mortal wounds, than Probes in the hands of carelesse and skillesse Chirurgeons. 1821Byron Sardan. v. i. 101 Let me see the wound; I am not quite skilless. 1862Lytton Str. Story II. 379 A mind, not ignoble, not skillless, not abjectly craven. 1890Spectator 18 Oct., [To] organise a brigade of poor gentlemen to replace these arrogant and skilless dockers.
b. Of things: Showing a lack of skill; badly made, crude, inartistic.
1830Godwin Cloudesley I. x. 156 The crude and skill-less impositions of the Turk. 1846Trench Mirac. i. (1862) 119 In their skill-less delineations the artists could not manage to find room for more. 1860Ld. Lytton Lucile ii. iv. 5 What matter though skilless the lay be, and rude?
Hence ˈskillessness, want of skill.
1823Blackw. Mag. XIV. 183 He had messed the mouth of a loose-fish by his awkward and impotent skillessness. |