nonadept

One who is not an adept, one who has not mastered a particular esoteric discipline.

Many people who disapprove of alcohol are actually terrified of losing control, which is the attitude of a nonadept.

A nonadept sacrifices God knows what, to set up a blockage even I can't Work through—'

Not adept; unskilled.

One of the things that has bugged me a long time about strips—and it hasn't been solved yet—is that the comic artists seem to be totally nonadept at dealing with cultural diversity.

The dialogs have a disorienting effect, stranding the nonadept Western reader somewhere between Sleeman's experienced poise and a touristic vertigo.