Self-taught
Self-taught adjective - Having skills or knowledge acquired through one's own efforts without formal training.
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Synonyms for Self-taught
Unskilled and self-taught are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Unskilled" instead an adjective phrase "Self-taught".
Unskilled
Unskilled adjective - Lacking or showing a lack of expert skill.
Usage example: an unskilled handling of the facial features in the portrait explains why it is attributed to “school of Velázquez” and not to the master himself
Self-taught and unskilled are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Self-taught" instead an adjective "Unskilled".
Nearby Words: unskillful, unskilful, unskilfully
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- naive and self-taught
- naive and unskilled
- unprepared and self-taught
- unprepared and unskilled
- inexpert and self-taught
- inexpert and unskilled
- unskillful and self-taught
- unskillful and unskilled
- untaught and self-taught
- untaught and unskilled
- untrained and self-taught
- untrained and unskilled
- untutored and self-taught
- untutored and unskilled
Both words in one sentence
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Unskilled, but Strong: Victor Sells/The Shadowman is very strong at magic, but he's also new to the gig and mostly self-taught.
Source: Literature / Storm Front -
Unskilled, but Strong: Since so few humans can manipulate lux, their adepts tend to be mostly self-taught.
Source: Webcomic / Tales of the Questor
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