unskilfuladj.

Brit.

/(ˌ)ʌnˈskɪlf(ᵿ)l/, U.S.

/ˌənˈskɪlfəl/

Etymology: un- prefix¹ 1.

†1.

a. Unreasonable. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > lack of moderation or restraint > [adjective]

outragea1325

unskilwisea1340

unskilfulc1370

delavyc1380

unordinatea1398

excess?a1400

untemperatea1425

unmannered1435

immoderate1497

insolent?a1500

surfeitc1500

intemperate1508

exceedinga1513

unsober1535

intemperant1542

distemperate1557

distempered1587

intemperous1614

acrasial1845

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [adjective] > excessive or too great in amount or degree

overmeteeOE

unmeeteOE

unimeteOE

unmethelyOE

over-mickleOE

hoflesc1175

overmucha1300

unskilwisea1340

unskilfulc1370

luxuriousc1374

overseemingc1384

superfluec1384

unreasonablea1387

outrageousc1390

over-greatc1390

overlargec1390

overgrowna1398

unmeasurablea1398

unmoderatea1398

unordinatea1398

immoderate1398

rankc1400

overabundantc1410

excessivea1420

superabundant?a1425

unmeasureda1425

superfluousc1475

nimious?c1500

surfeitc1500

overliberala1535

torc1540

exceeding1548

distemperate1557

over-ranka1568

overswelling1582

accessive1583

overaboundinga1600

overteeming1603

excessful1633

overproportionated1647

superproportioned1652

over-proportioned1662

overproportionate1672

unduea1684

unequal1704

unmerciful1707

hypermetric1854

hypertrophied1879

over the top1980

c1370 Lay Folks' Catech. (L.) 1342 Glotony..is an vnskylful lykyng or loue in tast or tastynge of mete or drynke.

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiii. 277 Of vnboxome speche,..of scoffyng and of vnskilful berynge.

c1400 Pilgr. Sowle (1859) i. xxx. 34 They shold serue theyr creatour..with resonable werkes doyng, and vnskylful werkes forbering.

1493 Chastysing Goddes Chyldern (de Worde) ix. sig. Bv/2 Her rest was full short by cause it was vnskilfull and also vn-lefull.

†b. Undiscerning; unwise, foolish. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [adjective]

dizzyc825

unwisec825

redelessOE

unwittyc1000

daftlikec1175

witlessc1175

canga1225

adoted?c1225

cangun?c1225

egedec1225

cangeda1250

foola1250

snepea1250

aerwittec1275

sotlyc1275

unslyc1275

unwitterc1275

unwilya1300

nicec1300

goosishc1374

unskilfulc1374

follyc1380

lewdc1380

mis-feelinga1382

dottlec1390

foltedc1390

peevishc1400

fona1425

fonnishc1425

foliousa1450

foolisha1450

daft?c1450

doitedc1450

dotyc1450

daffish1470

insapientc1470

gucked?a1500

wanwittya1500

furious1526

insipient1528

seelya1529

dawish?1529

foolage1545

momish1546

base-wittedc1547

stultitiousa1549

follifulc1550

senseless1565

mopish1568

fondish1579

unsensiblea1586

fondly1587

dizzardly1594

follial1596

featlessc1598

fopperly1599

gowkeda1605

inept1604

simple1604

anserine1607

foppish1608

silly ass1608

unsage1608

wisdomless1608

fool-beggeda1616

Gotham1621

noddy1645

badot1653

dosser-headed1655

infrunite1657

nonsensicalc1661

slight1663

sappy1670

datelessa1686

noddy-peaked1694

nizy1709

dottled1772

gypit1804

shay-brained1806

folly-stricken1807

fool-like1811

goosy1811

spoony1813

niddle-noddle1821

gumptionless1823

daftish1825

anserous1826

as crazy as a loon1830

spoonish1833

cheese-headed1836

dotty1860

fool-fool1868

noodly1870

dilly1873

gormless1883

daffy1884

monkey-doodle1886

mosy1887

jay1891

pithecanthropic1897

peanut-headed1906

dinlo1907

boob1911

goofy1921

ding-a-ling1935

jerky1944

jerk1947

jerkish1948

pointy-headed1950

doofus1967

twitty1967

twittish1969

nerkish1975

numpty1992

c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde i. 790 I may not endure þat þow dwelle In so vnskilful [v.r. onskylful] an opynyoun.

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 413 But that this seiyng is vnskilful may be schewid thus.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 30 Robert Losaunge that..by the gift of a thousand pound to the King, was made Bishop of Thetforde, repented him after, and bewayled that vnskilfull deede.

†2.

a. Ignorant of propriety. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > cultural ignorance > [adjective]

rudea1382

roida1400

borel1513

rustical?1532

illiberal1535

waste?1541

rusticc1550

illiterate1556

ruggedc1565

profane1568

unskilful1572

raw?1573

clownish1581

home-born1589

rough-hewn1593

unpolished1594

artless1598

home-bred1602

unbevelled1602

incult1628

museless1644

uncultivated1646

incultivateda1657

uncultivate1659

incultivate1661

unpolite1674

uncult1675

repent1684

uncultivated1725

uncultured1777

unenlightened1792

cultureless1824

sloven1856

philistinic1869

undoctrined1869

Philistine1871

Philistinish1871

roughneck1906

lowbrow1907

low-level1916

no-brow1922

bohunk1957

bakya1960

1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 159 Schir, thow art vnskilfull,..Thow byrd to haue nurtour aneuch, and thow hes nane.

†b. Ignorant of something. Also with infinitive or subordinate clause. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > unfamiliarity with, inexperience > [adjective]

unwistc1374

unknowna1393

ignorantc1475

imperfect1508

rawa1513

unskilfula1547

imperite?1550

illiterate1556

strange1561

unacquainted1565

green-headed1569

unacquainted1581

unacquaint1587

unfledged1603

inexperienced1626

guiltless1667

inexperient1670

unconversanta1674

unversed1675

uninitiated1678

a stranger to1697

uninitiate1801

inconversant1802

lay1821

griffish1836

wet behind the ears1851

neophytic1856

griffinish1860

experienceless1875

neophytish1897

wet-eared1967

a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) ii. sig. Biv Striken with dred, vnskilfull of the place.

1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 44^v Ill huswife vnskilfull, to make hir owne cheese.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxii. xxxi. 451 They fell unadvisedly into an ambush, and being unskilfull of the countrie,..they were soon enclosed among many.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 32 Unskilful with what words to pray, let mee Interpret for him.

a. Lacking in skill; inexpert.

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

1565 A. Golding tr. Caesar Martiall Exploytes in Gallia i. f. 32 The whyche pollicie, though it hadde taken place agaynst sauage and vnskylfull people, yet was not Ariouistus so folysh to loke that it should preuaile against oure army too.

1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 2^v The father an vnthrift, what hope to the sonne? The ruler vnskilfull, howe quickly vndone?

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 49 At his first entering the gouernment, when he was yet vnskilfull in the affaires of that State.

1639 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) I. 183 Ther was never soe Rawe, soe unskilfull and soe unwilling an Army brought to fight.

1709 G. Berkeley Ess. New Theory of Vision §12. 7 Those unskilful in Optics.

1765 Museum Rusticum 4 460 This operation is nice, and may prove dangerous in unskilful hands.

1840 W. M. Thackeray Shabby Genteel Story vi He was not unskilful at this kind of exercise.

1867 G. Duff in N. Brit. Rev. XLVII. 484 The attempts of the foreign evangelizers may often be unskilful enough.

absolute.1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Imperitum vulgus, the ignorant, rude, or vnskilfull.c1580 in Eng. Hist. Rev. July (1914) 524 He may rise or fall his price accordinglye and void manye inconveniences wiche the unskillfull fall in to.1612 B. Jonson Alchemist To Rdr. sig. A3^v It is onely the disease of the vnskilfull, to thinke rude things greater then polish'd. 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture III. 12 b It hardly happens..that what delights the Judges, shou'd at the same time strike the Unskilful.1769 W. Falconer Shipwreck (ed. 3) ii. 60 The gallant boatswain..Prompt to direct th' unskilful still appears.in extended use.1687 P. Ayres Lyric Poems (1906) 15 Could my unskilful pen augment his [i.e. Dryden's] fame.

b. Displaying lack of skill; clumsy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > displaying lack of skill

uncunning1387

unskilfula1586

unskilled1833

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. ix. sig. F4^v No more..then..the diligent Pilot in a daungerous tempest doth attend the vnskilful words of a passinger.

1614 S. Latham Falconry ii. vii. 94 Such Hawkes haue beene euelly ordered, and continued in vncleane and vnskilfull keeping.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xxxii. 195 When it seemeth so, the fault is either in our unskilfull Interpretation, or erroneous Ratiocination.

1737 R. Glover Leonidas iii. 250 Assyria's sons Their brazen helms display, th' unskilful work Of rude Barbarians.

1798 C. Lamb Rosamund Gray xiii His wounds by unskilful treatment had been brought to a dangerous crisis.

1831 G. P. R. James Philip Augustus I. vii De Coucy..took the instrument, over the strings of which he threw his hand, in a bold but not unskilful manner.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	unskilful
释义	unskilfuladj. Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈskɪlf(ᵿ)l/, U.S. /ˌənˈskɪlfəl/ Etymology: un- prefix¹ 1. †1. a. Unreasonable. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > lack of moderation or restraint > [adjective] outragea1325 unskilwisea1340 unskilfulc1370 delavyc1380 unordinatea1398 excess?a1400 untemperatea1425 unmannered1435 immoderate1497 insolent?a1500 surfeitc1500 intemperate1508 exceedinga1513 unsober1535 intemperant1542 distemperate1557 distempered1587 intemperous1614 acrasial1845 the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [adjective] > excessive or too great in amount or degree overmeteeOE unmeeteOE unimeteOE unmethelyOE over-mickleOE hoflesc1175 overmucha1300 unskilwisea1340 unskilfulc1370 luxuriousc1374 overseemingc1384 superfluec1384 unreasonablea1387 outrageousc1390 over-greatc1390 overlargec1390 overgrowna1398 unmeasurablea1398 unmoderatea1398 unordinatea1398 immoderate1398 rankc1400 overabundantc1410 excessivea1420 superabundant?a1425 unmeasureda1425 superfluousc1475 nimious?c1500 surfeitc1500 overliberala1535 torc1540 exceeding1548 distemperate1557 over-ranka1568 overswelling1582 accessive1583 overaboundinga1600 overteeming1603 excessful1633 overproportionated1647 superproportioned1652 over-proportioned1662 overproportionate1672 unduea1684 unequal1704 unmerciful1707 hypermetric1854 hypertrophied1879 over the top1980 c1370 Lay Folks' Catech. (L.) 1342 Glotony..is an vnskylful lykyng or loue in tast or tastynge of mete or drynke. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiii. 277 Of vnboxome speche,..of scoffyng and of vnskilful berynge. c1400 Pilgr. Sowle (1859) i. xxx. 34 They shold serue theyr creatour..with resonable werkes doyng, and vnskylful werkes forbering. 1493 Chastysing Goddes Chyldern (de Worde) ix. sig. Bv/2 Her rest was full short by cause it was vnskilfull and also vn-lefull. †b. Undiscerning; unwise, foolish. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [adjective] dizzyc825 unwisec825 redelessOE unwittyc1000 daftlikec1175 witlessc1175 canga1225 adoted?c1225 cangun?c1225 egedec1225 cangeda1250 foola1250 snepea1250 aerwittec1275 sotlyc1275 unslyc1275 unwitterc1275 unwilya1300 nicec1300 goosishc1374 unskilfulc1374 follyc1380 lewdc1380 mis-feelinga1382 dottlec1390 foltedc1390 peevishc1400 fona1425 fonnishc1425 foliousa1450 foolisha1450 daft?c1450 doitedc1450 dotyc1450 daffish1470 insapientc1470 gucked?a1500 wanwittya1500 furious1526 insipient1528 seelya1529 dawish?1529 foolage1545 momish1546 base-wittedc1547 stultitiousa1549 follifulc1550 senseless1565 mopish1568 fondish1579 unsensiblea1586 fondly1587 dizzardly1594 follial1596 featlessc1598 fopperly1599 gowkeda1605 inept1604 simple1604 anserine1607 foppish1608 silly ass1608 unsage1608 wisdomless1608 fool-beggeda1616 Gotham1621 noddy1645 badot1653 dosser-headed1655 infrunite1657 nonsensicalc1661 slight1663 sappy1670 datelessa1686 noddy-peaked1694 nizy1709 dottled1772 gypit1804 shay-brained1806 folly-stricken1807 fool-like1811 goosy1811 spoony1813 niddle-noddle1821 gumptionless1823 daftish1825 anserous1826 as crazy as a loon1830 spoonish1833 cheese-headed1836 dotty1860 fool-fool1868 noodly1870 dilly1873 gormless1883 daffy1884 monkey-doodle1886 mosy1887 jay1891 pithecanthropic1897 peanut-headed1906 dinlo1907 boob1911 goofy1921 ding-a-ling1935 jerky1944 jerk1947 jerkish1948 pointy-headed1950 doofus1967 twitty1967 twittish1969 nerkish1975 numpty1992 c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde i. 790 I may not endure þat þow dwelle In so vnskilful [v.r. onskylful] an opynyoun. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 413 But that this seiyng is vnskilful may be schewid thus. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 30 Robert Losaunge that..by the gift of a thousand pound to the King, was made Bishop of Thetforde, repented him after, and bewayled that vnskilfull deede. †2. a. Ignorant of propriety. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > cultural ignorance > [adjective] rudea1382 roida1400 borel1513 rustical?1532 illiberal1535 waste?1541 rusticc1550 illiterate1556 ruggedc1565 profane1568 unskilful1572 raw?1573 clownish1581 home-born1589 rough-hewn1593 unpolished1594 artless1598 home-bred1602 unbevelled1602 incult1628 museless1644 uncultivated1646 incultivateda1657 uncultivate1659 incultivate1661 unpolite1674 uncult1675 repent1684 uncultivated1725 uncultured1777 unenlightened1792 cultureless1824 sloven1856 philistinic1869 undoctrined1869 Philistine1871 Philistinish1871 roughneck1906 lowbrow1907 low-level1916 no-brow1922 bohunk1957 bakya1960 1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 159 Schir, thow art vnskilfull,..Thow byrd to haue nurtour aneuch, and thow hes nane. †b. Ignorant of something. Also with infinitive or subordinate clause. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > unfamiliarity with, inexperience > [adjective] unwistc1374 unknowna1393 ignorantc1475 imperfect1508 rawa1513 unskilfula1547 imperite?1550 illiterate1556 strange1561 unacquainted1565 green-headed1569 unacquainted1581 unacquaint1587 unfledged1603 inexperienced1626 guiltless1667 inexperient1670 unconversanta1674 unversed1675 uninitiated1678 a stranger to1697 uninitiate1801 inconversant1802 lay1821 griffish1836 wet behind the ears1851 neophytic1856 griffinish1860 experienceless1875 neophytish1897 wet-eared1967 a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) ii. sig. Biv Striken with dred, vnskilfull of the place. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 44^v Ill huswife vnskilfull, to make hir owne cheese. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxii. xxxi. 451 They fell unadvisedly into an ambush, and being unskilfull of the countrie,..they were soon enclosed among many. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 32 Unskilful with what words to pray, let mee Interpret for him. View more context for this quotation 3. a. Lacking in skill; inexpert. 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 1565 A. Golding tr. Caesar Martiall Exploytes in Gallia i. f. 32 The whyche pollicie, though it hadde taken place agaynst sauage and vnskylfull people, yet was not Ariouistus so folysh to loke that it should preuaile against oure army too. 1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 2^v The father an vnthrift, what hope to the sonne? The ruler vnskilfull, howe quickly vndone? 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 49 At his first entering the gouernment, when he was yet vnskilfull in the affaires of that State. 1639 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) I. 183 Ther was never soe Rawe, soe unskilfull and soe unwilling an Army brought to fight. 1709 G. Berkeley Ess. New Theory of Vision §12. 7 Those unskilful in Optics. 1765 Museum Rusticum 4 460 This operation is nice, and may prove dangerous in unskilful hands. 1840 W. M. Thackeray Shabby Genteel Story vi He was not unskilful at this kind of exercise. 1867 G. Duff in N. Brit. Rev. XLVII. 484 The attempts of the foreign evangelizers may often be unskilful enough. absolute.1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Imperitum vulgus, the ignorant, rude, or vnskilfull.c1580 in Eng. Hist. Rev. July (1914) 524 He may rise or fall his price accordinglye and void manye inconveniences wiche the unskillfull fall in to.1612 B. Jonson Alchemist To Rdr. sig. A3^v It is onely the disease of the vnskilfull, to thinke rude things greater then polish'd. View more context for this quotation1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture III. 12 b It hardly happens..that what delights the Judges, shou'd at the same time strike the Unskilful.1769 W. Falconer Shipwreck (ed. 3) ii. 60 The gallant boatswain..Prompt to direct th' unskilful still appears.in extended use.1687 P. Ayres Lyric Poems (1906) 15 Could my unskilful pen augment his [i.e. Dryden's] fame. b. Displaying lack of skill; clumsy. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > displaying lack of skill uncunning1387 unskilfula1586 unskilled1833 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. ix. sig. F4^v No more..then..the diligent Pilot in a daungerous tempest doth attend the vnskilful words of a passinger. 1614 S. Latham Falconry ii. vii. 94 Such Hawkes haue beene euelly ordered, and continued in vncleane and vnskilfull keeping. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xxxii. 195 When it seemeth so, the fault is either in our unskilfull Interpretation, or erroneous Ratiocination. 1737 R. Glover Leonidas iii. 250 Assyria's sons Their brazen helms display, th' unskilful work Of rude Barbarians. 1798 C. Lamb Rosamund Gray xiii His wounds by unskilful treatment had been brought to a dangerous crisis. 1831 G. P. R. James Philip Augustus I. vii De Coucy..took the instrument, over the strings of which he threw his hand, in a bold but not unskilful manner. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.c1370
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