PROFICIENCE Antonyms

• unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training

• the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant

• the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)

• the lack of knowledge or education

• lack of an adequate quantity or number

• a lack of competence

• unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate

• lack of potential for development

• the quality of not being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally

• lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications

• inability of a part or organ to function properly

• unskillfulness resulting from a lack of efficiency

• unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training

• having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful

• lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience