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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | honest, trustful |
| Synonyms: | artless, candid, childlike, frank, green*, guileless, innocent, like a babe in the woods, naive, natural, open, outspoken, plain, simple, sincere, square, straightforward, trusting, unaffected, unartful, unartificial, undisguised, unreserved, unschooled, unsophisticated, unstudied, up front |
| Notes: | ingenious is 'clever, brilliant'; ingenuous is 'frank, candid' or 'naïve' ingenuous means 'naïve, easily deceived, unsuspecting; foolish' - and disingenuous means 'calculating, deceptive' |
| Antonyms: | deceitful, dishonest, sly |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unskillful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not skilled |
| Synonyms: | amateurish, awkward, clumsy, gauche, inapt, inept, inexperienced, inexpert, maladroit, menial, unartful, unskilled |
| Antonyms: | skillful |
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| Main Entry: | unskillful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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Adjectives: |
adrift, ambilevous, ambisinistrous, at fault, awkward, blunderly, bungling, clodpolish, clumsy, cow-handed, disqualified, foolish, gauche, gawky, giddy, green, heavy-handed, ill-advised, ill-conducted, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-imagined, ill-judged, ill-qualified, inactive, inapt, incompetent, inconsiderate, inexperienced, inexpert, infelicitous, inhabile, jackleg, kitthoge, left-handed, lubberly, maladroit, misadvised, misconducted, misguided, out of practice, penny-wise and pound-foolish, quackish, raw, rusty, shiftless, slatternly, slovenly, stupid, unaccustomed, unadvised, unapt, unconversant, unfit, unguided, unhandy, uninitiated, unqualified, unskillful, unstatesmanlike, unteachable, untractable, untrained, unused, wild
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