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Definition of Inexpert
1. Adjective. Lacking professional skill or expertise. "An unskilled painting"
Similar to: Unprofessional
Derivative terms: Amateur, Amateurishness
Definition of Inexpert
1. a. Destitute of experience or of much experience.
Definition of Inexpert
1. Adjective. Inept or unskilled; not of expert ability or quality. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inexpert
1. a novice [n -S] - See also: novice
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inexpert
Literary usage of Inexpert
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Vision of Columbus: A Poem in Nine Books by Joel Barlow (1787)
"... nor inexpert in arms, See Humphreys glorious from the field mire, Sheathe the
glad fword and firing the ..."
2. Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1871)
"... or mitre joint may be made, or a piece be planed square or to any required
angle, with ease and accuracy, even by the inexpert. ..."
3. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1871)
"... a perfect right-angled or mitre joint may be made, or a piece be planed square
or to any required angle, with ease and accuracy, even by the inexpert. ..."
4. Beaumarchais and His Times: Sketches of French Society in the Eighteenth by Louis de Loménie (1857)
"The inexpert Watchmaker.—A Duel without Seconds.—A Debt of Honor.—Beaumarchais'
Literary Education. UNTIL the age of twenty-four, young Caron's ambition was ..."
5. Japan in Days of Yore by Walter Dening (1905)
"An inexpert fencer comes in for heavy blows.*' This was my experience and so I
gave it up. Now, old as I am, were I to fence it would only end in my defeat. ..."
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