Unskilled vs Unaccustomed - What's the difference?
unskilled | unaccustomed | Related terms |
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.
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
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)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, unskillfulunaccustomed
English
Adjective
(en adjective)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.
