unadept

noun, adj — 2 senses

noun

Etymology From un- + adept.

Someone who is not an adept.

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 […].1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein:

adj

Etymology From un- + adept.

Not adept; unproficient.

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