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31jack of all trades — noun One competent in many endeavors, especially one who excels in none of them. Now for the most part your porter is either some broken cittizen, who hath plaid Jack of all trades, some pander, broker, or hangman, that hath plaid the knaue with… …
32pedant — noun affecter, bluffer, closed minded person, dogmatist, narrow minded person, opinionated person, philosophaster, pretender, sciolist Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
33amateur — Synonyms and related words: Sunday painter, abecedarian, admirer, aesthete, aficionado, amateurish, apprentice, arbiter, arbiter elegantiarum, arbiter of taste, authority, avocational, beginner, bon vivant, booster, buff, bungler, bungling,… …
34dabbler — Synonyms and related words: Sunday painter, abecedarian, amateur, coquet, criticaster, dabster, dallier, dilettante, dunce, flirt, fool, fribble, grammaticaster, greenhorn, greeny, half scholar, ignoramus, illiterate, illiterati, know nothing,… …
35dilettante — Synonyms and related words: Sunday painter, abecedarian, admirer, aesthete, aficionado, amateur, arbiter, arbiter elegantiarum, arbiter of taste, authority, bon vivant, booster, buff, cognoscente, collector, connaisseur, connoisseur, coquet,… …
36trifler — Synonyms and related words: Sunday painter, amateur, bungler, clock watcher, coquet, criticaster, dabbler, dabster, dallier, dawdle, dawdler, diddler, dilettante, dillydallier, disregarder, do nothing, dodger, dolittle, doodler, faineant, flirt,… …
37IRONY, SOCRATIC — the name given to a practice of Socrates with pretentious people; affecting ignorance and pretending to solicit information, he was in the habit of turning round upon the sciolist and confounding his presumption, both by the unlooked for… …
38dabbler — n. Sciolist, quack, superficial meddler …
39ignoramus — n. Sciolist, smatterer, novice, wiseacre, greenhorn, simpleton, numskull. See dunce …
40smatterer — n. Ignoramus, novice, sciolist …
