inexpert
pronunciation
How to pronounce inexpert in British English:
UK [ɪnˈekspɜ:t]
How to pronounce inexpert in American English:
US [ɪnˈekspɜrt]
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- Adjective:
- lacking professional skill or expertise
Word Origin
- inexpert (adj.)
- mid-15c., from in- (1) "not, opposite of" + expert (adj.), or else from Old French inexpert, from Latin inexpertus "without experience, unpracticed." Related: Inexpertly.
Example
- 1. Inexpert official intervention can easily backfire .
- 2. To the inexpert eye , nothing appeared to be wrong .
- 3. A very amateurish job ; inexpert but conscientious efforts ; an unskilled painting .
- 4. Some people are white , like the rightists in the party who are politically white and technically inexpert .
- 5. Research published by the journal of wine economics shows that inexpert wine drinkers actually prefer cheap wine in a blind tasting .