Antonyms for skilled
skɪldskilled

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. skilled

   Skilful signifies possessing and using readily practical knowledge and ability, having alert and well-trained faculties with reference to a given work. One is adept in that for which he has a natural gift improved by practise; he is expert in that of which training, experience, and study have given him a thorough mastery; he is dexterous in that which he can do effectively, with or without training, especially in work of the hand or bodily activities. In the case of the noun, "an expert" denotes one who is "experienced" in the fullest sense, a master of his branch of knowledge. A skilled workman is one who has thoroughly learned his trade, though he may be naturally quite dull; a skilful workman has some natural brightness, ability, and power of adaptation, in addition to his acquired knowledge and dexterity. Compare CLEVER; DEXTERITY; POWER.

   Antonyms:
   awkward, bungling, clumsy, helpless, inexpert, maladroit, shiftless, unhandy, unskilled, untaught, untrained

   Synonyms:
   accomplished, adept, adroit, apt, clever, deft, dexterous, expert, handy, happy, ingenious, practised, proficient, skilful, trained

   Preposition:
   Skilful at or in a work, with a pen or tool of any kind.

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. skilledadjective

   having or showing or requiring special skill

   "only the most skilled gymnasts make an Olympic team"; "a skilled surgeon has many years of training and experience"; "a skilled reconstruction of her damaged elbow"; "a skilled trade"

   Antonyms:
   artless, semiskilled(a), botched, humble, unskillful, botchy, hopeless, menial, fumbling, clumsy, rusty, bungling, crude, butcherly, bungled, rough, incompetent, unskilled, weak, lubberly, lowly, out of practice(p)

How to use skilled in a sentence?

1. Lara Brown:

   Candidates that have a more intellectual side and are less skilled at the people side -- like Al Gore or a John Kerry or a Mitt Romney -- the worst thing that can happen is that they are over-handled.

2. Business Secretary Sajid Javid:

   This is a human tragedy, when we talk about job losses in the abstract it is easy to forget that each of them represents a person. A hardworking, highly skilled man or woman.

3. Bruce Arnold:

   You … have shown that you can fly wingtip to wingtip with your brothers. If ever there was doubt in anyone’s mind that women could become skilled pilots, the WASPs dispelled that doubt. I want to stress how valuable the whole WASP program has been for the country.

4. Del Bosque:

   These are people who had worked for us for many years, and they're highly skilled people.

5. Doris Meissner:

   The refugee resettlement agency infrastructure in United States is absolutely starving for resources and for skilled staff, because it was allowed to wither on the vine during the last four years.

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