unpracticed

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   lacking training, experience, or skill gained through practice

   To her unpracticed eye, the forged signature looked genuine.

2. 2
   adj

   not carried out, exercised, or customarily put into practice

   The old defensive maneuver remained unpracticed for decades.

Formed from un- ('not') + practiced, the past participle of practice. Practice came through Old French practiser and Medieval Latin practizare from Greek praktikos, 'concerned with action.' The adjective describes either a person without repeated experience or an action not put into use.

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