Connoisseur synonyms and antonyms

kŏn'ə-sûr', -so͝or'

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bon-vivant
A person with refined taste, especially one who enjoys superb food and drink.
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woman of taste
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epicure
A person who enjoys and has a discriminating taste for fine foods and beverages
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authority
Power assigned to another; authorization:
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cognoscente (Italian)
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arbiter of taste
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virtuoso
A person displaying great technical skill in some fine art, esp. in the performance of music
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ignoramus (antonym)
An ignorant and stupid person
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judge
(--- Law) A public official who hears and decides cases brought in court.
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critic
Such a person whose profession is to write or broadcast such judgments of books, music, paintings, sculpture, plays, films, television, etc., as for a newspaper
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expert
A person with a high degree of skill in or knowledge of a certain subject.
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gourmet
A connoisseur in eating and drinking, someone who takes their food considerably more seriously than most.
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man of taste
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collector
In some transistors, the region or layer of semiconductor material, acting as an electrode, that receives the electric current from the base
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epicurean
A follower of Epicurus or his philosophy
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tastemaker
One that determines or strongly influences current trends or styles, as in fashion or the arts.
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culture-vulture
(Slang) A person who professes great interest in culture and the arts
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cognoscente
Someone possessing superior or specialized knowledge in a particular field; a connoisseur.
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mavin
Alternative form of maven.
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aesthete
A person highly sensitive to art and beauty
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dilettante
One who dabbles in an art or a field of knowledge.
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gastronome
A person who enjoys and has a discriminating taste for foods
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maven
(Informal) An expert or connoisseur, often, specif., a self-proclaimed one
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aficionado (related)
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cognoscenti (related)
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enthusiast (related)
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lover (related)
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afficionado (related)
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specialist
A physician whose practice is limited to a particular branch of medicine or surgery, especially one who is certified by a board of physicians:
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gourmand
A person given to excess in the consumption of food and drink; a greedy or ravenous eater.
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buff
A piece of soft material, such as velvet or leather, often mounted on a block and used for polishing.
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Synonym Study

  • Dilettante originally referred to one who appreciates art as distinguished from one who creates it, but is now chiefly used disparagingly of one who dabbles superficially in the arts
  • Aesthete , although applied to one highly sensitive to art and beauty, is often used derogatorily to connote effeteness or decadence
  • A connoisseur is one who has expert knowledge or a keen discrimination in matters of art and, by extension, in any matters of taste a connoisseur of fine foods
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Connoisseur Sentence Examples

  • He was a well-known connoisseur of art.

  • He was a man of wide knowledge, a connoisseur in art and music, and the friend of most of the leading authors of his time.

  • A typical academician was the poet, antiquary and connoisseur, Nils Fredrik Sander (1828-1900).

  • The armory was not the collection of a wealthy connoisseur; this was the personal armory of a man accustomed to killing often.

  • Many of KOuns sculptures appear unfinished to eyes trained in Occidental galleries, whereas the Japanese connoisseur detects evidence of a technical feat in their seeming roughness.

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