Dilettante synonyms

dĭl'ĭ-tänt', dĭl'ĭ-tänt', -tănt'

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aesthete
One who cultivates an unusually high sensitivity to beauty, as in art or nature.
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professional (antonym)
Having or showing great skill; expert:
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dabbler
One who dabbles
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nonprofessional
One who is not a professional; an amateur.
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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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ability (related)
(Countable) A skill or competence in doing; mental power; talent; aptitude. [First attested in the early 17 th century.]
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dilettanteish
Alternative form of dilettantish.
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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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sentimentalist (related)
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free-thinker (related)
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hard-bitten (related)
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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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connoisseur (related)
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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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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unskillful
(Obsolete) Ignorant.
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Dilettante Sentence Examples

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

  • This feeling explains his detestation of foreign manners and superstitions, his loathing not only of inhuman crimes and cruelties but even of the lesser derelictions from selfrespect, his scorn of luxury and of art as ministering to luxury, his mockery of the poetry and of the stale and dilettante culture of his time, and perhaps, too, his indifference to the schools of philosophy and his readiness to identify all the professors of stoicism with the reserved and close-cropped puritans, who concealed the worst vices under an outward appearance of austerity.

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