Word Meanings - NONPROFICIENCY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Want of proficiency; failure to make progress.

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• PROGRESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress.
• PROGRESS
  to go forth or forward; pro forward + gradi to step, go: cf. F. 1. A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance; specifically: In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, etc. In the growth of an animal or plant; increase.
• PROGRESSION
  Regular or proportional advance in increase or decrease of numbers; continued proportion, arithmetical, geometrical, or harmonic. (more info) 1. The act of moving forward; a proceeding in a course; motion onward. 2. Course; passage; lapse
• PROGRESSIST
  One who makes, or holds to, progress; a progressionist.
• FAILURE
  1. Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops. 2. Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise. 3. Want of success; the state of having failed. 4. Decau, or defect from decay;
• PROGRESSIVE PARTY
  The political party formed, chiefly out of the Republican party, by the adherents of Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912. The name Progressive party was chosen at the meeting held on Aug. 7, 1912, when the candidates
• PROGRESSIONIST
  1. One who holds to a belief in the progression of society toward perfection. 2. One who maintains the doctrine of progression in organic forms; -- opposed to uniformitarian. H. Spencer.
• PROGRESSIVE
  1. Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; -- opposed to retrograde. 2. Improving; as, art is in a progressive state. Progressive euchre or whist, a way of playing
• UNPROFICIENCY
  Want of proficiency or improvement. Bp. Hall.
• DEFAILURE
  Failure. Barrow.
• NONPROFICIENCY
  Want of proficiency; failure to make progress.
• PROFICIENCE; PROFICIENCY
  The quality of state of being proficient; advance in the acquisition of any art, science, or knowledge; progression in knowledge; improvement; adeptness; as, to acquire proficiency in music.
• IMPROGRESSIVE
  Not progressive. De Quincey. -- Im"pro*gress"ive*ly, adv.
• IMPROFICIENCE; IMPROFICIENCY
  Want of proficiency. Bacon.