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n. A person who engages in an art, science, study, or athletic activity as a pastime rather than as a profession.

n. Sports An athlete who has never accepted money, or who accepts money under restrictions specified by a regulatory body, for participating in a competition.

n. One lacking the skill of a professional, as in an art.

adj. Of or performed by an amateur.

adj. Made up of amateurs: an amateur cast.

adj. Not professional; unskillful.

n. A lover of something.

n. 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.

n. Someone who is unqualified or insufficiently skillful.

adj. Non-professional.

adj. Created, done, or populated by amateurs or non-professionals.

adj. Showing a lack of professionalism, experience or talent.

n. A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally.

n. One who admires; an admirer; a lover.

n. One who has an especial love for any art, study, or pursuit, but does not practise it.

n. Most commonly, one who cultivates any study or art from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally or with a view to gain: often used of one who pursues a study or an art in a desultory, unskilful, or non-professional way.

n. Specifically, in sporting and athletics, an athlete who has never competed in a match open to all comers, or for a stake, or for public money, or for gate-money, or under a false name, or with a professional for a prize, and has never taught or pursued athletic exercises as a means of support.

Pertaining to or having the character of an amateur: as, amateur work; an amateur pianist.

n. an athlete who does not play for pay

adj. engaged in as a pastime

n. someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime

adj. lacking professional skill or expertise

"I totally agree with your etymological assessment of the term amateur, I will always be an amateur, never a professional. lichanos"

nonprofessional    unprofessional   

amateur night    amateur hour   

dilettante    Corinthian    bungler   

professional    American    eminent    veteran    expert    famous    skilled    first-rate    lesbian    most