unadept
English
Etymology
From un- + adept.
Noun
unadept (plural unadepts)
- Someone who is not an adept.
- 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein:
- And thus for a time I was occupied by exploded systems, mingling, like an unadept, a thousand contradictory theories and floundering desperately in a very slough of multifarious knowledge […].
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Adjective
unadept (comparative more unadept, superlative most unadept)
- Not adept; unproficient.
Anagrams
- anted up, untaped