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non-professional
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not professional |
| Synonyms: | amateur, dilettantish, lay |
| Antonyms: | professional |
| 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: | 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: | dilettante |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amateur |
| Synonyms: | abecedarian, aesthete, connoisseur, dabbler, dallier, greenhorn, nonprofessional, rookie, smatterer, tenderfoot, trifler, tyro, uninitiate |
| Antonyms: | professional |
| Main Entry: | lay |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | amateur, not trained in a religious or other profession |
| Synonyms: | inexpert, nonclerical, nonprofessional, nonspecialist, ordinary, secular, temporal, unsacred |
| Notes: | to lay is to place something; to lie is to recline |
| Antonyms: | ordained, 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: | layman |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amateur |
| Synonyms: | believer, dilettante, follower, laic, lay person, member, neophyte, nonprofessional, novice, outsider, parishioner, proselyte, recruit, secular |
| Antonyms: | professional |
| Main Entry: | dilettantish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | amateurish |
| Synonyms: | dilettante, inexperienced, inexpert, nonprofessional, sciolistic, unskilled, unskillful |
| Main Entry: | smatterer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amateur |
| Synonyms: | Sunday driver, abecedarian, apprentice, aspirant, beginner, bush leaguer, dabbler, dilettante, greenhorn, ham, hopeful, layperson, learner, neophyte, nonprofessional, novice, probationer, putterer, recruit, tenderfoot, tyro, uninitiate |
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