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Definition/Meaning

(noun)

an unskilled and incompetent person;

e.g. She is a jackleg seamstress, and she started sewing clothes as a hobby.

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Similar Words

Alternate

Amateur

Avocational

Backyard

Corrupt

Decadent

Degenerate

Degraded

Depraved

Dilettante

Dissipated

Dissolute

Hack

Hacker

Inexpert

Libertine

Loose

Nonprofessional

Perverse

Perverted

Reprobate

Sick

Stopgap

Sunday

Unclean

Unprofessional

Unseasoned

Unskilled

Unskillful

Untrained

Untried

Unwholesome

Warped

Would-be

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Opposite Words

Able

Accomplished

Adept

All-around

All-round

Ambidextrous

Capable

Competent

Complete

Crack

Dexterous

Ethical

Experienced

Expert

Finished

Fitted

Gifted

Good

Great

Habile

Handsome

Honest

Incorruptible

Maestro

Master

Masterful

Masterly

Moral

Multiskilled

Old-timer

Polished

Practiced

Prepared

Principled

Proficient

Qualified

Righteous

Skillful

Slick

Sure-handed

Versatile

Versed

Vet

Veteran

Virtuoso

Virtuous

Well-rounded

Whiz

Wizard

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Related Words

Acting

Awkward

Beginner

Beginning

Clumsy

Cutthroat

Defective

Dilettante

Faulty

Flawed

Fresh

Freshman

Green

Greenhorn

Ham-fisted

Ham-handed

Heavy-handed

Immoral

Incapable

Incompetent

Inexpert

Kid

Machiavellian

Naive

Neophyte

New

Newcomer

Novice

Part-time

Primitive

Provisional

Provisory

Raw

Rookie

Temporary

Tenderfoot

Tyro

Unable

Unconscionable

Unethical

Unfinished

Unfit

Ungifted

Uninitiated

Unpolished

Unprepared

Unprincipled

Unprofessional

Unqualified

Unschooled

Unscrupulous

Unseasoned

Unskilled

Untalented

Untaught

Untested

Untrained

Untried

Untutored

Weekend

Would-be

talentless

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