unpracticed
Americanadjective
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not trained or skilled; inexpert.
an unpracticed actor.
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not practiced; not usually or generally used or done; not put into effect.
Etymology
Origin of unpracticed
Example Sentences
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A productive music scene, as Mr. Gould proposes, requires regular, low-stakes stages for unpracticed artists to discover themselves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
“It doesn’t automatically handle unpracticed forms of generalization.”
From Scientific American ● Oct. 26, 2023
“The irony is obvious,” says Greenamyre, a shy man with a dry sense of humor and a penchant for practical jokes who, to the unpracticed eye, shows few if any signs of the disease.
From Science Magazine ● May 4, 2023
“I knew people who refused to debate him,” Balling added, recalling the frustrations of some scientists, highly trained in their fields but unpracticed in the political arena, who were called upon to spar with him.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2022
He had no doubt but that, in an hour at the utmost, he could make the unpracticed Carolinians glad to sue for peace on any terms.
From Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII No. 4, April 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor
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