Dilettante

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  • noun. One who dabbles in an art or a field of knowledge.
  • noun. A lover of the fine arts.
  • adjective. Superficial; amateurish.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest.
  • noun. A person with a general but superficial interest in any art or a branch of knowledge.
  • adjective. Pertaining to or like a dilettante.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge
  • adjective. showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish
  • Word Usage
    "The real generalist is sometimes known as a dilettante and needs an independent income."
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