Accomplished and Unable

Accomplished

Accomplished adjective - Having or showing exceptional knowledge, experience, or skill in a field of endeavor.
Usage example: a delicate eye operation that only the most accomplished surgeon would attempt

Unable is an antonym for accomplished in skilled in activity topic.

Unable

Unable adjective - Lacking qualities (as knowledge, skill, or ability) required to do a job.
Usage example: a celebrated author of serious plays, he turned out to be a particularly unable writer of comedies

Accomplished is an antonym for unable.

Both words in one sentence

  • Aversion: In the Sandman comics by Neil Gaiman, a struggling young writer is unable to successfully publish anything until he acquires a bezoar and gives it to an older, accomplished writer.
  • Video Game / Final Fantasy XIII-2 One of the sidequests is from a young boy who was sucked into a temporal distortion and killed, and is unable to move on because he never accomplished anything.
  • This Means War! Aircraft Carriers, which they were unable to do as they were at sea and all they had really accomplished was to destroy some battleships that the Americans didn't greatly rely on anyway.
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