unskilled

adj.

1. Lacking skill or technical training: unskilled laborers.
2. Requiring no training or skill: unskilled jobs; unskilled labor.
3. Exhibiting a lack of skill; inexpert: an unskilled painting.

Describing an individual having no formal skills, training, or education. Unskilled workers are the least employable and most easily replaced through automation.

adjective

1. Lacking the qualities, as efficiency or skill, required to produce desired results: inapt, incapable, incompetent, inefficient, inept, inexpert, unskillful, unworkmanlike. See ability/inability.
2. Lacking the required professional skill: amateurish, dilettante, dilettantish, nonprofessional, unprofessional, unskillful. See ability/inability.

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The adjective has 3 meanings:

Meaning #1: not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency
  Antonym: skilled (meaning #1)

Meaning #2: lacking professional skill or expertise
  Synonyms: amateurish, amateur, inexpert

Meaning #3: not doing a good job
  Synonym: incompetent

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - uøvet, ufaglært

Nederlands (Dutch)
ongeschoold, ongeoefend

Français (French)
adj. - non qualifié, non-spécialisé, incompétent

Deutsch (German)
adj. - ungelernt, unerfahren, ungeschickt

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - (για εργαζόμενους) ανειδίκευτος

Italiano (Italian)
non qualificato, inesperto

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - inábil

Русский (Russian)
неквалифицированный, неумелый

Español (Spanish)
adj. - no cualificado, no especializado, inexperto

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - oerfaren, okunnig, obevandrad, outbildad, utan yrkesutbildning, inte fackutbildad arbetare, tempoarbetare

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
不熟练的, 拙劣的, 未成熟的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 不熟練的, 拙劣的, 未成熟的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 숙달하지 않은, 미숙한

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 熟練してない, 熟練を要しない, 熟練していない

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) غير ماهر, لا يتطلب براعه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮לא מיומן, לא מקצועי, לא מצריך ידע מיוחד‬

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