as in amateur
lacking or showing a lack of expert skill
many dilettante efforts could be seen at the sidewalk art show
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as in tinkerer
a person who regularly or occasionally engages in an activity as a pastime rather than as a profession
a dilettante at heart, she was never willing to commit the time and effort that ballet demands
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as in scholar
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a person having a knowledgeable and fine appreciation of the arts
she writes about art not from the point of view of an artist but from that of a committed dilettante
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Recent Examples of dilettante
Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2024
An even simpler reason is that Trump is a vain, distractible dilettante.
—Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2024
By then, the mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot had gained a reputation as an academic dilettante.
—Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
Efforts to put in additional safeguards proved unsuccessful, however, and Circle would sell the exchange to a consortium of Asian investors, including crypto dilettante Justin Sun, amid a cloud of regulatory uncertainty just a year later for a loss of $156 million.
—Leo Schwartz, Fortune Crypto, 6 Sep. 2023
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Noun
Under the impression that Tom is good friends with his son, Dickie Greenleaf, a trust-fund dilettante who has decided to live in Italy to paint and dillydally instead of working with his father as planned, Mr. Greenleaf offers Tom money to go to Italy and convince the playboy to come home.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2024
An even simpler reason is that Trump is a vain, distractible dilettante.
—Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2024
By then, the mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot had gained a reputation as an academic dilettante.
—Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
Efforts to put in additional safeguards proved unsuccessful, however, and Circle would sell the exchange to a consortium of Asian investors, including crypto dilettante Justin Sun, amid a cloud of regulatory uncertainty just a year later for a loss of $156 million.
—Leo Schwartz, Fortune Crypto, 6 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dilettante
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The lone amateur in the field this week, Jackson Koivun, shot an impressive even par 72 at Bay Hill for the first round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational.—
Tommy Tuberville,
Newsweek,
7 Mar. 2025
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He’s fought Davis twice in the amateurs and lost decisions in both fights.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes,
1 Mar. 2025
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Legal scholars question what will happen to the Fed if the Supreme Court says independent agencies are unconstitutional.—
Greg Rosalsky,
NPR,
4 Mar. 2025
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The Department Of Education Is Already Being Dismantled, Impacting Student Loan Operations Most legal scholars agree that Trump cannot simply eliminate the Department of Education through executive action.—
Adam S. Minsky,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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Scottie Scheffler, a fellow arabica bean connoisseur, abstains from java during tournament rounds.—
Mike Dojc,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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Sitting high, cut wide, with deftly hewn lines these strides are signature stuff from Creative Director/founder Nick Wakeman, a modernist fabric connoisseur and cutting genius.—
Tom Stubbs,
Robb Report,
5 Mar. 2025
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Best for: Hoka devotees, those seeking max cush, heavier runners, those who run gravel roads and road-to-smooth-trail routes.—
Lisa Jhung,
Outside Online,
28 Feb. 2025
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For the less daring design devotees, perhaps zebra wood furniture could be your new fix?—
Sydney Gore,
Architectural Digest,
27 Feb. 2025
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“Dilettante.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dilettante. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.
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