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
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
Unable and unskilled are semantically related in untrained topic. You can use "Unable" instead an adjective "Unskilled".
Nearby Words: unskillful, unskilful, unskilfully
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