What does unskillful mean?

unskillful means "poorly done".

How many syllables are in unskillful?

unskillful has 3 syllables and divides as un-skill-ful under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for unskillful?

Close synonyms include botchy, butcherly. 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 unskillful a common word?

unskillful 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.

Unskillful — meaning, 2 synonyms and examples

adjective

1 senseA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
poorly done
“a botchy piece of work”
“it was an unskillful attempt”
Synonymsbotchy butcherly
Similarunskilled

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What does unskillful mean?: unskillful means "poorly done".
How many syllables are in unskillful?: unskillful has 3 syllables and divides as un-skill-ful under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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