Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who has failed to improve or make progress in any study or pursuit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not proficient.
- noun One who has failed to become proficient.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
proficient .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Using brain waves, we can equity peoples' imagination with peoples' spatial engineering abilities in Second Life; it can become the great equalizer for the technologically nonproficient or inhibited.
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A girl from Bridgeport is 18.0 times as likely to be nonproficient in math, 15.7 times as likely to be nonproficient in reading, and 25.0 times ! as likely to be nonproficient in writing.
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A boy from Bridgeport is 18.3 times as likely to be nonproficient in math or reading as a boy from Westport, and 15.0 times as likely to be nonproficient in reading.
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Another way of stating this is that the ratio of nonproficient boys to nonproficient girls in Bridgeport is 1.2 for reading, and 1.8 for writing.
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