nontalented
- adjective
- Offensive
- Despite her hard work in art class, she felt nontalented and struggled to create anything she was proud of.
- nontalented members
Examples
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The nontalented player did his best, but he couldn't keep up with the more skilled teammates during the game.
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Even after practicing for months, he still considered himself nontalented in singing compared to his friends.
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All in all, we found some support for Hypothesis 3b, at least with respect to the impact of individual ability: the nontalented members used social creativity more than the talented members.
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The effects (+ SE) of group stability (stable or unstable) and individual ability (talented or nontalented) on the participants' ratings of the response alternatives.
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However, collective normative action clearly was the most popular alternative for both the talented and the nontalented members (54% and 58%, respectively).
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Hypothesis 4b: There is a main effect of individual ability on self-esteem: Nontalented members of low-status groups report lower self-esteem than do talented members of low-status groups.
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Hypothesis 3b: There are main effects of individual ability and stability on social creativity: Nontalented members use social creativity more than nontalented members do, and members in a stable intergroup relation use social creativity more than do members in an unstable intergroup relation.
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Hypothesis 3b: There are main effects of individual ability and stability on social creativity: Nontalented members use social creativity more than nontalented members do, and members in a stable intergroup relation use social creativity more than do members in an unstable intergroup relation.
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In line with FSM (Taylor & McKirnan, 1894), the pupils in the high-individual-ability condition were subsequently referred to as talented, and the pupils in the low-individual-ability condition as nontalented.
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Synonyms
A person or thing that cannot do something well
Not good at an activity
Having no ability or training to do something well
Does not have a special talent or natural ability
Not skilled at a task or subject
Has little skill or experience in a particular activity
A person who does not have natural talent
Not having enough skill in a subject or activity
Not trained and not able to do a particular job
Antonyms
How Talented
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Nontalented combines non- 'not' and talent 'natural skill', so it describes someone or something that does not have much natural ability.