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UNSKILLED PERSON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unskilled person mean? 

UNSKILLED PERSON (noun)
  The noun UNSKILLED PERSON has 1 sense:

1. a person who lacks technical trainingplay

  Familiarity information: UNSKILLED PERSON used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNSKILLED PERSON (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who lacks technical training

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("unskilled person" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unskilled person"):

bootblack; shoeblack (a person who polishes shoes and boots)

grunt (an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker)

drudge; hack; hacker (one who works hard at boring tasks)

ignoramus; know nothing; uneducated person (an ignorant person)

incompetent; incompetent person (someone who is not competent to take effective action)

beginner; initiate; novice; tiro; tyro (someone new to a field or activity)

ragpicker (an unskilled person who picks up rags from trash cans and public dumps as a means of livelihood)

fiddler; tinkerer (an unskilled person who tries to fix or mend)


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