Word Meanings - NONPROFICIENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who has failed to become proficient.

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• BECOME
  happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional
• PROFICIENT
  One who has made considerable advances in any business, art, science, or branch of learning; an expert; an adept; as, proficient in a trade; a proficient in mathematics, music, etc. (more info) go forward, make progress; pro forward + facere to
• FAILLE
  A soft silk, heavier than a foulard and not glossy.
• BECOMED
  Proper; decorous. And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak.
• 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;
• PROFICIENTLY
  In a proficient manner.
• FAILANCE
  Fault; failure; omission. Bp. Fell.
• FAIL
  failir, fr. L. fallere, falsum, to deceive, akin to E. fall. See 1. To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expected manner, or to be altogether
• FAILING
  1. A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing. And ever in her mind she cas about For that unnoticed failing in herself. Tennyson. 2. The act of becoming
• UNBECOME
  To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock.
• NONPROFICIENT
  One who has failed to become proficient.
• DEFAILURE
  Failure. Barrow.
• JEOFAIL
  An oversight in pleading, or the acknowledgment of a mistake or oversight. Blackstone.
• DEFAILANCE
  Failure; miscarriage. Possibility of defailance in degree or continuance. Comber.
• MISBECOME
  Not to become; to suit ill; not to befit or be adapted to. Macaulay. Thy father will not act what misbecomes him. Addison.
• DISBECOME
  To misbecome. Massinger.
• UNFAILING
  Not failing; not liable to fail; inexhaustible; certain; sure. Dryden. -- Un*fail"ing*ly, adv. -- Un*fail"ing*ness, n.
• DEFAIL
  To cause fail.
• UNFAILABLE
  Infallible. "This unfailable word of truth." Bp. Hall.