Dilettante

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A dabbler in an art or a field of knowledge. See Synonyms at amateur.
  • n. A lover of the fine arts; a connoisseur.
  • adj. Superficial; amateurish.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest.
  • n. A person with a general but superficial interest in any art or a branch of knowledge.
  • adj. Pertaining to or like a dilettante.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An admirer or lover of the fine arts; popularly, an amateur; especially, one who follows an art or a branch of knowledge, desultorily, or for amusement only.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An admirer or lover of the fine arts, science, or letters; an amateur; one who pursues an art or literature desultorily and for amusement: often used in a disparaging sense for a superficial and affected dabbler in literature or art.
  • Relating to dilettantism; having the characteristics of dilettanti.
  • To play the dilettante.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge
  • adj. showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish
  • Equivalent
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    amateur   
    Cross Reference
    dabbler    amateur   
    Variant
    dilettanti   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    amateur   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    shirker    sciolist    idler    fop    hanger-on    nonentity    connoisseur    trifler    dabbler    spendthrift