Dilettante Synonyms and Antonyms

dĭlĭ-tänt, dĭlĭ-tänt, -tănt
One lacking professional skill and ease in a particular pursuit
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. dabbler
  2. amateur
  3. connoisseur
  4. trifler
  5. aesthete
  6. admirer
  7. nonprofessional
  8. smatterer
  9. dabster
  10. rookie
  11. uninitiate
  12. superficial
  13. sciolist
Antonyms:
  1. professional
Amateurish
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. dilettantish
  2. dilettanteish
  3. sciolistic
Antonyms:
  1. professional
Lacking the required professional skill
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. amateurish
  2. dilettantish
  3. nonprofessional
  4. unprofessional
  5. unskilled
  6. unskillful

Words Related to Dilettante

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. ability
  2. sentimentalist
  3. free-thinker

Dilettante Sentence Examples

  • His ambitions were high, but he became a dilettante.

  • At Athens he must have been a dilettante, an idler, without political rights or duties.

  • From this time, with the exception of occasional public appearances, he gave himself up to elegant luxury, with which he combined a sort of dilettante pursuit of philosophy, literature and art.

  • Catulus in the preceding generation, was a kind of dilettante poet and a precursor of the poetry of pleasure, which attained such prominence in the elegiac poets of the Augustan age.

  • Yet there was an unspoken assumption by the economic Fellows that unless I attended their advanced sessions I was just a dilettante.

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