Proficient Antonyms

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clumsy

all thumbs
blundering
blunderous
bulky
bumbling
bungling
butterfingered
clownish
crude
elephantine
gauche

green

bosky
budding
burgeoning
callow
developing
flourishing
foliate
fresh
grassy
growing
half-formed

ignorant

apprenticed
benighted
birdbrained
blind to
cretinous
dense
green
illiterate
imbecilic
in the dark
inexperienced

immature

adolescent
baby
babyish
callow
childish
crude
green
half-grown
imperfect
infantile
infantine

impotent

barren
crippled
dud
effete
enervated
enfeebled
feeble
forceless
frail
gutless
helpless

incapable

butterfingers
disqualified
feeble
impotent
inadequate
incompetent
ineffective
ineligible
inept
inexperienced
inexpert

incompetent

amateur
amateurish
awkward
bungling
bush-league
clumsy
disqualified
floundering
helpless
inadequate
incapable

inefficient

can't hack it
careless
disorganized
extravagant
faulty
feeble
half-baked
improficient
improvident
incapable
incompetent

inept

all thumbs
artless
awkward
bumbling
bungling
butterfingers
gauche
halting
inadept
incapable
incompetent

inexperienced

amateur
callow
fresh
green
ignorant
immature
inept
inexpert
innocent
kid
naive

unable

can't cut it
can't hack it
can't make the grade
clumsy
helpless
hog-tied
impotent
impuissant
inadequate
incapable
incapacitated

unskilled

awkward
green
inadequate
incompetent
inept
inexperienced
inexpert
inproficient
not up to
raw
unable

unskillful

amateurish
awkward
clumsy
gauche
inapt
inept
inexperienced
inexpert
maladroit
menial
unartful

untalented

all thumbs
blundering
blunderous
bulky
bumbling
bungling
butterfingered
clownish
crude
elephantine
gauche

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