单词 | inexpert |
释义 | inexpert (once / 26621 pages) adj If you're inexpert at something, you haven't been taught to do it, and you can't do it very well. An inexpert painter might spatter paint all over your wood floors and furniture. Being inexpert at some activity means you don't have much practice doing it. It takes an inexpert knitter a lot longer to finish a hat than one with experience, and an inexpert driver is still learning the rules of the road. If you're an expert, you're a professional with skill and knowledge, from the Latin root word expertus, "tried, proved, or known by experience." When you add the "not" prefix in-, you get inexpert. WORD FAMILYinexpert: inexpertest, inexpertly+/expert: expertise, expertly, expertness, experts, inexpert USAGE EXAMPLESThis is still too much power to give unelected, inexpert judges over a core function of the political branches. Washington Post(Sep 15, 2016) In this vital regard, Israel will not be helped in any way by Trump's ill-conceived and persistently inexpert recommendations. US News(Aug 30, 2016) But if Dad’s forgeries were mundane and inexpert, what he did next was simply incredible. The Guardian(Jun 04, 2016) adj lacking professional skill or expertise inexpert but conscientious efforts Syn amateur, amateurish, unskilled unprofessional not characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession |
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