Usually means: Lacking skill or competence; unskilled.
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Similar:
incompetent, inapt, feckless, tactless, maladroit, infelicitous, clumsy, cumbersome, awkward, ill-chosen, more...

Opposite:
competent, adept

Types:
clumsy, awkward, gauche, maladroit, more...

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little, best, own, singularly, more, same, general, academically, usual, refocused, uncommonly

Crossword clues:
not competent,   not very competent,   unskilled in,   not handy,   in ability,   unable to draw,   bad at politics,   no aptitude,   bad at driving,   bad at fighting

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