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31dilettante — 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,… …
32Ignoramus — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Ignoramus >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 ignoramus ignoramus dunce Sgm: N 1 wooden spoon wooden spoon Sgm: N 1 no scholar no scholar GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 sciolist sciolist smatterer dabbler …
33dabbler — 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,… …
34trifler — 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,… …
35tyro — n. [Written also Tiro.] 1. Beginner, novice, learner, neophyte. 2. Sciolist, smatterer, dabbler, half scholar …
36dabbler — n putterer, potterer, smatterer, trifler, dal lier, piddler, Inf. dabster; dilettante, sciolist, half scholar; amateur, nonprofessional, layman, do it yourselfer …
37dilettante — n 1. dabbler, Inf. dabster, smatterer, sciolist, half scholar, amateur, nonprofessional, layman; do it yourselfer, putterer, potterer, trifler, dalli er, piddler. 2. art lover, person of taste, connoisseur, Latin, arbiter elegantiae; member of… …
38Sarah Trimmer — painted by Henry Howard Sarah Trimmer (née Kirby) (6 January 1741 – 15 December 1810) was a noted writer and critic of British children s literature in the eighteenth century. Her periodical …
39Christopher Smart's asylum confinement — Christopher Smart The English poet Christopher Smart (1722–1771) was confined to mental asylums from May 1757 until January 1763. Smart was admitted into St Luke s Hospital for Lunatics …
40china — /chuy neuh/, n. 1. a translucent ceramic material, biscuit fired at a high temperature, its glaze fired at a low temperature. 2. any porcelain ware. 3. plates, cups, saucers, etc., collectively. 4. figurines made of porcelain or ceramic material …
