Dilettante Synonyms and Antonyms

dĭl'ĭ-tänt', dĭl'ĭ-tänt', -tănt'

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Synonyms for Dilettante

aesthete
One who cultivates an unusually high sensitivity to beauty, as in art or nature.
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dilettanteish
Alternative form of dilettantish.
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dabbler
One who dabbles
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smatterer
One who smatters; one who dabbles in or experiments with a little bit of everything, especially knowledge.
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uninitiate
Those who have not been initiated, outsiders.
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amateurish
Like an amateur; inexpert; unskillful
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unprofessional
Not a qualified member of a professional group.
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unskilled
Not skilled
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sciolistic
Of or relating to sciolism, or a sciolist.
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sciolist
One who exhibits only superficial knowledge; a self-proclaimed expert with little real understanding.
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nonprofessional
One who is not a professional; an amateur.
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rookie
A novice.
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trifler
A pewterer, who produced small pewter utensils, like saltcellars.
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amateur
A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; especially one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally.
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unskillful
(Obsolete) Ignorant.
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admirer
One who admires.
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dabster
An expert; one who is master of their profession.
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superficial
(Chiefly in plural) A surface detail.
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Antonyms for Dilettante

professional
Having or showing great skill; expert:
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Words Related to Dilettante

ability
(Countable) A skill or competence in doing; mental power; talent; aptitude. [First attested in the early 17 th century.]
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free-thinker
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connoisseur
The definition of a connoisseur is a person who is an expert at something or who has informed and discriminating taste.
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Dilettante Sentence Examples

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

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

  • 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.

  • In the days of the great dilettante Yoshimasa (1449-1490), lacquer experts devised a new style, laka-makie, or decoration in relief, which immensely augmented the beauty of the ware, and constituted a feature altogether special to Japan.

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