Adjective

(en adjective)

Of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training.

*, chapter=22

, title= 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.}}

Of a job: not requiring skill or training.

Of a made object: inexpertly made or showing a lack of skill.

Adjective

(-)

Without skill; unskilled, inept.

* 2000 , Muhammad Khalid Masud, Travellers in faith :

It may appear skillless for a preacher to snub the simple aspirations of his audience so brutally.

* 2005 , Juliana Essen, "Right development": the Santi Asoke Buddhist reform movement of Thailand :

The system taught children to be skillless , "big head but small hands."

* 2006 , David Salomon, Foundations of computer security :

Fool, someone not bright or skillless .