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UNSKILLED PERSON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who lacks technical training
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("unskilled person" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unskilled person"):
bootblack; shoeblack (a person who polishes shoes and boots)
grunt (an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker)
drudge; hack; hacker (one who works hard at boring tasks)
ignoramus; know nothing; uneducated person (an ignorant person)
incompetent; incompetent person (someone who is not competent to take effective action)
beginner; initiate; novice; tiro; tyro (someone new to a field or activity)
ragpicker (an unskilled person who picks up rags from trash cans and public dumps as a means of livelihood)
fiddler; tinkerer (an unskilled person who tries to fix or mend)
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