Another word for amateur
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Noun
One lacking professional skill and ease in a particular pursuit
- Those who have not been initiated, outsiders.
- Not experienced.
- One who smatters; one who dabbles in or experiments with a little bit of everything, especially knowledge.
- One who is not a professional.
- One who dabbles in an art or a field of knowledge.
- A lover of the fine arts.
- Superficial; amateurish.
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Another word for amateur
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- A vacant lot used especially by children for unorganized sports and games.
- Of, relating to, or played in a sandlot:
- Not expert; unskilled.
- Lacking skill or technical training:
- Requiring no training or skill:
- Exhibiting a lack of skill; inexpert:
- Characteristic of an amateur; not professional.
- of, relating to, or being an avocation
- Not experienced; lacking knowledge or experience; green.
- Not yet paid:
- Serving without pay; unsalaried:
- To cause to lie down:
- To place in or bring to a particular position:
- To bury.
- One who is not a professional.
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Noun
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- A lump or chunk, especially of earth or clay.
- Earth or soil.
- A dull, stupid person; a dolt.
- Someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
- Agent noun of fumble; one who fumbles.
- One of the young of bears, wolves, lions, pandas, or certain other animals.
- A youth, especially one who is inexperienced, awkward, or ill-mannered.
- A novice or learner, particularly in newspaper reporting.
- An inexperienced or immature person, especially one who is easily deceived.
- A newcomer, especially one who is unfamiliar with the ways of a place or group.
- An untrained or inexperienced recruit, as in the army or police.
- An inexperienced person; a novice.
- A first-year player, especially in a professional sport.
- The thigh of the hind leg of certain animals, especially a hog.
- A cut of meat from the thigh of a hog.
- The back of the knee.
- A newcomer not yet hardened to rough outdoor life; a greenhorn.
- An inexperienced person; a novice.
- A Boy Scout of the lowest rank.
- A student in the first-year class of a high school, college, or university.
- A beginner; a novice.
- A person who putters
- A person who is interested in a subject or an activity as a hobby
- A practitioner of do it yourself
- One bound by legal agreement to work for another for a specific amount of time in return for instruction in a trade, art, or business.
- One who is learning a trade or occupation, especially as a member of a labor union.
- A beginner; a learner.
- To set going by taking the first step; begin:
- To introduce to a new field, interest, skill, or activity:
- To admit (someone) into membership, as with a ritual or ceremony.
- A recent convert to a belief; a proselyte.
- A beginner or novice:
- A newly ordained priest.
- One who teaches or studies the alphabet.
- A beginner; a novice.
- Having to do with the alphabet.
- A beginner in learning something.
- Having or manifesting hope.
- Inspiring hope; promising.
- A person who aspires to success or who shows promise of succeeding, especially as a political candidate:
- One who aspires, as to advancement, honors, or a high position.
- Seeking recognition, distinction, or advancement.
- A person on probation.
- One who dabbles in an art or a field of knowledge.
- A lover of the fine arts.
- Superficial; amateurish.
- To enlist (persons) in military service.
- To strengthen or raise (an armed force) by enlistment.
- To hire or enroll, or seek to hire or enroll (new employees, members, or students).
- One that is learning
- A person new to a field or activity; a beginner.
- A person who has entered a religious order but has not yet taken final vows.
- One that begins.
- One who is just starting to learn or do something; a novice.
- One who is not a cleric.
- One who is a nonprofessional in a given field.
- One who is not a cleric.
- One who is a nonprofessional in a given field.
- One who is not a professional.
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Synonym Study
- 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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