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say it: uhn-SKILD
unskilled is an adjective meaning "not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency". It carries 3 recorded senses.
not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency
“unskilled in the art of rhetoric”
“an enthusiastic but unskillful mountain climber”
“unskilled labor”
“workers in unskilled occupations are finding fewer and fewer job opportunities”
“unskilled workmanship”
lacking professional skill or expertise
“a very amateurish job”
“inexpert but conscientious efforts”
“an unskilled painting”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for unskilled come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.