That's the opinion of a dilettante.
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Dilettante
//dɪlɪˈtænti//
Synonyms for "dilettante" (108 found)
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Noun(3 words)
Adjective(1 words)
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2 entriesRelated terms
4 entriesderived
6 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
7 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
118 translations across 28 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- դիլետանտ noun (someone who dabbles)
Belarusian
2 entries- дылета́нт noun (someone who dabbles)
- дылета́нтка noun (someone who dabbles)
Bulgarian
4 entries- дилетантски adj (pertaining to or like a dilettante)
- любителски adj (pertaining to or like a dilettante)
- дилета́нт noun (someone who dabbles)
- дилета́нтка noun (someone who dabbles)
Catalan
4 entries- aficionada adj (pertaining to or like a dilettante)
- aficionat adj (pertaining to or like a dilettante)
- diletant adj (pertaining to or like a dilettante)
- aficionada noun (someone who dabbles)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 業餘愛好者 /业余爱好者 noun (someone who dabbles)
Czech
2 entries- diletant noun (someone who dabbles)
- diletantka noun (someone who dabbles)
Dutch
4 entries- dilettantisch adj (pertaining to or like a dilettante)
- amateur noun (someone who dabbles)
- amateur noun (person with a general but superficial interest)
- liefhebber noun (someone who dabbles)
Esperanto
3 entries- diletanta adj (pertaining to or like a dilettante)
- amatoro noun (someone who dabbles)
- diletanto noun (someone who dabbles)
Finnish
4 entries- harrastelijamainen adj (pertaining to or like a dilettante)
- diletantti noun (someone who dabbles)
- diletantti noun (person with a general but superficial interest)
- harrastelija noun (someone who dabbles)
French
3 entries- dilettante adj (pertaining to or like a dilettante)
- dilettantesque adj (pertaining to or like a dilettante)
- dilettante noun (someone who dabbles)
Georgian
3 entries- დილეტანტური adj (pertaining to or like a dilettante)
- დილეტანტი noun (someone who dabbles)
- დილეტანტი noun (person with a general but superficial interest)
German
4 entries- dilettantisch adj (pertaining to or like a dilettante)
- Amateur noun (someone who dabbles)
- Amateurin noun (someone who dabbles)
- Dilettant noun (someone who dabbles)
Hebrew
1 entries- חוֹבְבָן noun (someone who dabbles)
Hindi
4 entries- अध्यवसायी कलाकार adj (pertaining to or like a dilettante)
- अपूर्ण ज्ञाता adj (pertaining to or like a dilettante)
- कला-प्रेमी adj (pertaining to or like a dilettante)
- अध्यवसायी noun (someone who dabbles)
Hungarian
3 entries- amatőr noun (someone who dabbles)
- dilettáns noun (person with a general but superficial interest)
- műkedvelő noun (someone who dabbles)
Italian
1 entries- dilettante noun (someone who dabbles)
Macedonian
2 entries- дилета́нт noun (someone who dabbles)
- дилета́нтка noun (someone who dabbles)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- dilettant noun (someone who dabbles)
- dilettant noun (person with a general but superficial interest)
Polish
4 entries- amatorski adj (pertaining to or like a dilettante)
- amator noun (someone who dabbles)
- amator noun (person with a general but superficial interest)
- amatorka noun (someone who dabbles)
Portuguese
2 entries- diletante noun (someone who dabbles)
- diletante noun (person with a general but superficial interest)
Romanian
2 entries- amator noun (someone who dabbles)
- diletant noun (someone who dabbles)
Russian
4 entries- дилета́нтский adj (pertaining to or like a dilettante)
- люби́тельский adj (pertaining to or like a dilettante)
- непрофессиональный adj (pertaining to or like a dilettante)
- дилета́нт noun (someone who dabbles)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- dilètant noun (someone who dabbles)
- dilètantica noun (someone who dabbles)
- ljubitèljica noun (someone who dabbles)
- ljùbitelj noun (someone who dabbles)
Slovak
2 entries- diletant noun (someone who dabbles)
- diletantka noun (someone who dabbles)
Slovene
2 entries- ljubitelj noun (someone who dabbles)
- ljubiteljica noun (someone who dabbles)
Spanish
4 entries- diletante adj (pertaining to or like a dilettante)
- dilettante adj (pertaining to or like a dilettante)
- diletante noun (someone who dabbles)
- diletante noun (person with a general but superficial interest)
Swedish
4 entries- amatörmässig adj (pertaining to or like a dilettante)
- amatör noun (person with a general but superficial interest)
- dilettant noun (someone who dabbles)
- dilettant noun (person with a general but superficial interest)
Ukrainian
4 entries- дилета́нт noun (someone who dabbles)
- дилета́нт noun (person with a general but superficial interest)
- дилета́нтка noun (someone who dabbles)
- дилета́нтка noun (person with a general but superficial interest)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
You have to turn to history and go a few centuries back to the Renaissance era, to Leonardo da Vinci, in order to find such a fascinating man who was not merely a dilettante, but a genius working in many different fields.
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He's more a dilettante than a committed professional.
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She's more a dilettante than a committed professional.
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