out of practice

1. 1.

   impaired in skill by neglect

   Synonymsrusty

   Similarunskilled

Questions about out of practice

What does out of practice mean?

out of practice means "impaired in skill by neglect".

What is another word for out of practice?

Close synonyms include rusty. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is out of practice a common word?

out of practice is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.