Unskilled vs Poetaster - What's the difference?
unskilled | poetaster |
Of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training.
*, chapter=22
, title= Of a job: not requiring skill or training.
Of a made object: inexpertly made or showing a lack of skill.
An unskilled poet.
* 1853 , ,
As an adjective unskilled
is of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training.As a noun poetaster is
an unskilled poet.unskilled
English
Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.}}
See also
* unskilful, unskillfulpoetaster
English
Noun
(poetasters)Mental Portraits; Or, Studies of Character''], ''The Reviewer: [[w:Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey], page 219:
- Where the personal feelings were not engaged, it was also an agreeable pastime to follow his destructive feats; see him annihilate a poetaster , or insinuate away the pretensions of a book-wright.
