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Unskilled vs Unaccustomed - What's the difference?

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Unskilled is a related term of unaccustomed.


As adjectives the difference between unskilled and unaccustomed

is that unskilled is of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training while unaccustomed is not prepared by life experience to an event or thing, not accustomed.

unskilled

English

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.
  • See also

    * unskilful, unskillful

    unaccustomed

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not prepared by life experience to an event or thing, not accustomed.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood.}}
    He is unaccustomed to the cold.

    Derived terms

    * unaccustomedly * unaccustomedness