dabbler
121adept — n *expert, wizard, artiste, artist, virtuoso Antonyms: bungler Contrasted words: dabbler, tyro, *amateur, dilettante: apprentice, *novice, probationer adept adj *proficient, skilled, skillful, expert, masterly …
122connoisseur — dilettante, *aesthete Analogous words: *epicure, gourmet, bon vivant: *expert, adept Contrasted words: *amateur, tyro, dabbler …
123dilettante — 1 *amateur, dabbler, tyro Contrasted words: artist, *expert, adept 2 *aesthete, connoisseur Contrasted words: *artist, artificer, architect: *writer …
124expert — adj *proficient, adept, skilled, skillful, masterly Analogous words: practiced, drilled (see PRACTICE vb): trained, schooled (see TEACH): *dexterous, deft, adroit Antonyms: amateurish Contrasted words: inept, maladroit, *awkward, clumsy expert …
125novice — novice, novitiate, apprentice, probationer, postulant, neophyte are comparable when applied to one who is a beginner, especially in a trade, a profession, a career, or a sphere of life. Novice and the less common novitiate may be applied to… …
126tyro — *amateur, dilettante, dabbler Analogous words: *novice, apprentice, probationer, neophyte …
127aesthete — n 1. connoisseur, virtuoso, aesthetician; epicure, epicurean, gourmet, gourmand; expert, authority, mavin, adept, savant, cognoscente; man or woman of taste, lover of beauty; critic, Latin, arbiter elegant iae. judge, arbiter. 2. dilettante,… …
128amateur — n 1. nonprofessional, layman, do it yourselfer; dabbler, dallier, trifler, putterer, potterer, dilettante; beginner, novice, tyro, neophyte, learner. 2. fan, devotee, votary, aficionado, Inf. buff, Sl. freak, Sl. bug, Sl. nut; admirer, fancier,… …
