Amateur \Am`a*teur"\, n. [F., fr. L. amator lover, fr. amare to
love.]
A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science
as to music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or
art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it
professionally.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
amateur
adj 1: engaged in as a pastime; "an amateur painter"; "gained
valuable experience in amateur theatricals";
"recreational golfers"; "reading matter that is both
recreational and mentally stimulating"; "unpaid extras
in the documentary" [syn: recreational, unpaid]
2: lacking professional skill or expertise; "a very amateurish
job"; "inexpert but conscientious efforts"; "an unskilled
painting" [syn: amateurish, inexpert, unskilled]
n 1: someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime
2: does not play for pay [ant: professional]
WordNet (r) 2.0
104 Moby Thesaurus words for "amateur":
Sunday painter, abecedarian, admirer, aesthete, aficionado,
amateurish, apprentice, arbiter, arbiter elegantiarum,
arbiter of taste, authority, avocational, beginner, bon vivant,
booster, buff, bungler, bungling, clumsy, cognoscente, collector,
connaisseur, connoisseur, coquet, crank, critic, criticaster,
crude, dabbler, dabbling, dabster, dallier, devotee, dilettante,
dilettantish, enthusiast, epicure, epicurean, expert, faddist, fan,
fancier, flirt, follower, freak, fribble, good judge, gourmand,
gourmet, grammaticaster, greenhorn, groupie, half scholar,
half-assed, half-baked, half-cocked, idolater, idolizer, immature,
inexpert, infatuate, inferior, judge, lay, layman, maven, mediocre,
neophyte, nonprofessional, novice, nut, philologaster,
philosophaster, piddler, potterer, probationer, pundit, putterer,
refined palate, rooter, savant, scholar, sciolist, sciolistic,
second-rate, shallow, smatterer, smattering, sophomoric,
specialist, superficial, technical expert, technician, tinker,
trifler, tyro, unpaid, unprofessional, unskilled, untrained,
virtuoso, votary, worshiper, zealot
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
amateurish, inexpert, recreational, unpaid, unskilled
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