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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not ready |
| Synonyms: | amateur, awkward, blundering, bungling, bush league, butter-fingered, clumsy, debilitated, disqualified, feeble, heavy-handed, ill-equipped, impotent, inadequate, incapable, incapacitated, incompetent, ineffective, inefficient, ineligible, inept, inexperienced, inexpert, maladjusted, maladroit, no good, not cut out for, not equal to, not up to, unable, unapt, unfitted, unhandy, unpracticed, unprepared, unproficient, unqualified, unskilled, unskillful, untrained, useless, weak |
| Antonyms: | able, fit, qualified, ready, willing |
| Main Entry: | unqualified |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not prepared, incompetent |
| Synonyms: | amateur, bush, bush-league, disqualified, ill-equipped, inadequate, incapable, ineligible, inexperienced, not equal to, not up to, unequipped, unfit, unfitted, unprepared, unskilled |
| Antonyms: | competent, prepared, qualified, ready |
| Main Entry: | abecedarian |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginner |
| Synonyms: | amateur, dabbler, fledgling, learner, neophyte, novice, tenderfoot |
| Main Entry: | bush league |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | minor league |
| Synonyms: | amateur, minors, nothing to brag about, second-rate, small potatoes, the bushes, triple-A |
| Main Entry: | votary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | believer |
| Synonyms: | addict, adherent, admirer, aficionado, amateur, buff, devotee, disciple, enthusiast, fanatic, follower, votarist, zealot |
| Main Entry: | nonprofessional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not professional |
| Synonyms: | amateur, dilettantish, lay |
| Antonyms: | professional |
| Main Entry: | nonprofessional |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | layperson |
| Synonyms: | amateur, dabbler, dilettante, laic, laity, layman, laywoman, tyro |
| Antonyms: | professional |
| Main Entry: | greenness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inexperience |
| Synonyms: | amateur, callowness, ignorance, immaturity, ineptness, inexpertness, innocence, newness, rawness, youth |
| Main Entry: | novitiate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginner |
| Synonyms: | abecedarian, amateur, apprentice, buckwheater, catechumen, colt, fish*, fledgling, freshman, greenhorn, greenie, initiate, learner, neophyte, new kid on the block, new person, newcomer, novice, probationer, recruit, starter, student, tenderfoot, trainee, tyro |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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