Word Meanings - UNPROFICIENCY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Want of proficiency or improvement. Bp. Hall.

Related words: (words related to UNPROFICIENCY)

• IMPROVEMENT
  Valuable additions or betterments, as buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises. (more info) 1. The act of improving; advancement or growth; promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration;
• UNPROFICIENCY
  Want of proficiency or improvement. Bp. Hall.
• 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.
• MISIMPROVEMENT
  Ill use or employment; use for a bad purpose.
• DISIMPROVEMENT
  Reduction from a better to a worse state; as, disimprovement of the earth.
• IMPROFICIENCE; IMPROFICIENCY
  Want of proficiency. Bacon.