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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | amateurish |
| Synonyms: | artsy fartsy, dabbling, green*, half-baked, half-cocked, rookie, tenderfoot, unaccomplished, ungifted, unskilled |
| Antonyms: | professional |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | amateur |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | casual participant |
| Synonyms: | Sunday driver, abecedarian, apprentice, aspirant, beginner, bush leaguer, dabbler, dilettante, greenhorn, ham, hopeful, layperson, learner, neophyte, nonprofessional, novice, probationer, putterer, recruit, tenderfoot, tyro |
| Notes: | an amateur is someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime; a novice is someone who is new to a field or activity |
| Antonyms: | professional |
| Main Entry: | bohemian |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonconformist |
| Synonyms: | artist, beatnik, dilettante, flower child, free spirit, gypsy, hippie*, iconoclast, writer |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | connoisseur |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | authority |
| Synonyms: | adept, aesthete, aficionado, appreciator, arbiter, bon vivant, buff*, cognoscente, critic, devotee, dilettante, epicure, expert, fan, freak*, gourmet, judge, maven*, nut*, one into, savant, specialist |
| Antonyms: | ignoramus |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dabbler |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amateur |
| Synonyms: | abecedarian, beginner, dilettante, loafer, nonprofessional, novice, potterer, pretender, smatterer, tinkerer, trifler, tyro, uninitiate |
| Antonyms: | professional |
| Main Entry: | layperson |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amateur person, not trained in religious or other profession |
| Synonyms: | believer, dilettante, follower, laic, member, neophyte, nonprofessional, novice, outsider, parishioner, proselyte, recruit, secular |
| Antonyms: | minister, ordained, priest, professional, reverend |
| Main Entry: | poet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who writes expressive, rhythmic verse |
| Synonyms: | artist, author, balladist, bard, dilettante, dramatist, librettist, lyricist, lyrist, maker, metrist, odist, parodist, poetaster, rhapsodist, rhymer, rimer, sonnetist, versifier, writer |
| Main Entry: | unfinished |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not completed |
| Synonyms: | amateurish, bare, crude, cut short, dabbling, defective, deficient, dilettante, faulty, formless, found wanting, fragmentary, half-baked, half-done, immature, imperfect, in the making, in the rough, incomplete, lacking, natural, not done, plain, raw, rough, roughhewn, shapeless, sketchy, tentative, unaccomplished, unadorned, unassembled, uncompleted, unconcluded, under construction, undeveloped, undone, unexecuted, unfashioned, unfulfilled, unperfected, unpolished, unrefined, wanting |
| Antonyms: | completed, finished, polished, refined, whole |
| Main Entry: | aesthete |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person having great sensitivity to beauty |
| Synonyms: | connoisseur, dilettante, esthete, person of good taste |
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