Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Lacking reason or intellectual power; irrational.
  • Lacking knowledge; ignorant; uninformed; unaware.
  • Lacking practical acquaintance or experience; unfamiliar (with); untrained or unversed; rude; inexpert.

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  • adjective Alternative form of skillless.

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Examples

  • Being skilless in these parts; which to a stranger,

    Twelfth Night; or, What You Will 2004

  • Orleans recruits under Lockridge, who had just arrived at the mouth of the river, found themselves headed off, and began a long and skilless fight to recover the steamers and make the junction with the isthmus force.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 Various

  • Being skilless in these parts; which to a stranger,

    Act III. Scene III. Twelfth-Night; or, What You Will 1914

  • However skilless, they cannot help reproducing, any more than water poured from an old ink-bottle can help coming out more or less black; although, if sufficiently pretentious, they can monstrously caricature, especially if they begin with the modest time-worn admission that they are more familiar with the marling-spike than with the pen.

    From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life 1877

  • Being skilless in these parts, which, to a stranger,

    Woodstock 1855

  • Man and fiend had alike failed a mind, not ignoble, not skilless, not abjectly craven; alike failed a heart not feeble and selfish, not dead to the hero's devotion, willing to shed every drop of its blood for

    A Strange Story — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Man and fiend had alike failed a mind, not ignoble, not skilless, not abjectly craven; alike failed a heart not feeble and selfish, not dead to the hero's devotion, willing to shed every drop of its blood for a something more dear than an animal's life for itself!

    A Strange Story — Volume 08 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Being skilless in these parts, which, to a stranger,

    Woodstock; or, the Cavalier Walter Scott 1801

  • Being skilless in these parts; which to a stranger,

    Twelfth Night; or What You Will 1601

  • And though by skilless builders framed and wrought

    Jerusalem Delivered Torquato Tasso 1569

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