Another word for amateur
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Noun
One lacking professional skill and ease in a particular pursuit
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Another word for amateur
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- Tyro refers to an inexperienced but self-assertive beginner and generally connotes incompetence
- Novice and neophyte refer to one who is a beginner, hence inexperienced, in some activity, neophyte carrying additional connotations of youthful enthusiasm
- A dilettante is an amateur in the arts, usually applied disparagingly to a superficial dabbler
- Amateur refers to one who does something for the pleasure of it rather than for pay and often implies a relative lack of skill
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