Amateur
Amateur adjective - Lacking or showing a lack of expert skill.
Usage example: in every room there were amateur watercolors, apparently the work of the innkeeper's wife
Unable and amateur are semantically related. in incompetent topic. In some cases you can use "Unable" instead an adjective "Amateur".
Unable
Unable adjective - Lacking qualities (as knowledge, skill, or ability) required to do a job.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- Uncle Dudley's amateur stage magic produced real effects, and the Marvel Family were unable to transform until they tried saying their magic words backwards (sounding like "Mazash" and "Lev-ram Ni-at-pac").
Source: Your Magic's No Good Here -
On the other hand, Shizuka is a fairly talented amateur actress who wishes to become a professional, and her syndrome is a pretty major impediment to that — who is going to bother hiring an actress that spends 25-50% of her time unable to go on stage?
Source: Manga / Translucent
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