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单词 skilless
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skillessadj.

Brit. /ˈskɪlləs/, U.S. /ˈskɪ(l)ləs/
Forms: Also Middle English skilllæs, 1500s skilles, 1500s–1600s skillesse, 1500s skyllesse, 1800s– skill-less.
Etymology: < skill n.1 + -less suffix.
1. Devoid of (†reason or) knowledge; ignorant.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > lack of reason, irrationality > [adjective]
skillessc1175
unskilwisec1340
witlessa1382
unreasonablec1384
reasonlessa1450
unrationablea1500
unreasoned1582
irrationable1583
discourseless1620
irrational1661
unreasoning1682
dicked-up1967
ill1979
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [adjective]
unlearedeOE
untowenc1000
unwittyc1000
skillessc1175
uncouthc1220
lewda1225
lorelessa1300
simplea1325
layc1330
uncunning1340
untaughtc1340
unknowingc1350
rudea1382
roida1400
unquainta1400
ignorant?c1400
unlearnedc1400
misknowing?a1425
simple-hearted?c1425
unknownc1475
unkenningc1480
unweeting1483
nescienta1500
craftlessc1530
misliterate1532
sillya1547
ingram1553
gross1561
inscient1578
borowe1579
plain-headeda1586
empirical1588
rudeful1589
lack-learning1590
learnless?1593
wotless?1594
ingrant1597
untutored1597
small-knowing1598
uninstructed1598
unlearnt1609
unread1609
unware?1611
nescious1623
inscious1633
inscientifical1660
uninformed1702
unaware1704
unable1721
unsuspecting1776
inerudite1801
ill-informed1824
incognoscent1827
unminded1831
unknowledgeable1837
knowledgelessc1843
parviscient1862
clueless1943
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 3715 Wiþþ mann kinn. þatt wass stunnt. & dill & skilllæs swa summ asse.
1561 T. Norton & T. Sackville Gorboduc ii. ii Lest skilles rage throwe doune with head~long fal Their lands.
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 1240/2 Walter Malclerke or skillesse clerke, treasuror of England.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. iii. 9 [Through] iealousie, what might befall your trauell [printed rravell], Being skillesse in these parts. View more context for this quotation
1627 T. May tr. Lucan Pharsalia (1631) x. 595 The skillesse people run Through the vast pallace scatter'd vp, and downe.
1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision II. ix. 100 A heavenly dame, not skilless of these things.
1818 J. Keats Endymion iii. 148 A little patience, youth! 'twill not be long, Or I am skilless quite.
2.
a. Lacking skill; unskilled, unskilful.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective]
craftlessOE
unslyc1275
unexperta1425
incrafty?1520
imperite?1550
unskilful1565
skilless1573
artless1586
inexpert1598
unarted1603
boisterous1609
unhandsomea1616
unwieldy1666
unartful1683
undexterous1688
unaccomplished1709
not so (also not too) hot1845
rotten1867
one-fingered1868
button pushing1896
1573 T. Tusser Points Huswifrie (new ed.) f. 26, in Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) From Cities ioy, to country care, to skilles folke, is homely change.
1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. iii. 131 Like powder in a skillesse souldiers flaske, Is set a fier. View more context for this quotation
a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 55/1 Some young Phaeton, Whose skilless and unstaved Hand May prove the Ruin of the Land.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Yorks. 203 But Swords and Guns have not made more mortal wounds, than Probes in the hands of carelesse and skillesse Chirurgeons.
1821 Ld. Byron Sardanapalus v. i. 143 Let me see the wound; I am not quite skilless.
1862 E. Bulwer-Lytton Strange Story II. xlix. 379 A mind, not ignoble, not skilless, not abjectly craven.
1890 Spectator 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.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > unskilled in art or craft > not displaying technical skill
unartificial1591
inartificial1609
unartful1675
unartistlike1757
skilless1830
1830 W. Godwin Cloudesley I. x. 156 The crude and skill-less impositions of the Turk.
1846 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles Introd. i. 115 In their skill-less delineations the artists could not manage to find room for more.
1860 Ld. Lytton Lucile ii. iv. 5 What matter though skilless the lay be, and rude?

Derivatives

ˈskillessness n. want of skill.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun]
uncraftiness?1520
unexpertness1538
unskilfulness1544
unskill1565
sinisterity1623
inexpertness1744
skillessness1823
inexpertise1926
1823 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 14 183 He had messed the mouth of a loose-fish by his awkward and impotent skillessness.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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