slight+knowledge
11glimmering — Synonyms and related words: a little learning, amateurism, blink, blinking, blinky, broad hint, clue, coruscant, coruscating, coruscation, cue, dilettantism, dilettantship, firefly, gentle hint, gesture, glimmer, glimmerous, glimmery, glimpse,… …
12glimpse — Synonyms and related words: a little learning, amateurism, behold, blink, cast, cast a glance, catch sight of, clap eyes on, descry, dilettantism, dilettantship, discern, discover, distinguish, espy, flash, gander, glance, glance at, glimmering,… …
13shallowness — Synonyms and related words: a little learning, absentmindedness, amateurism, appearance, big deal, carelessness, dilettantism, dilettantship, disregard, disregardfulness, distraction, emptiness, exteriority, externality, externalness,… …
14smattering — Synonyms and related words: a little learning, amateurism, cast, coquetry, dabbling, dalliance, dallying, dash, dilettantism, dilettantship, few, fiddling, flirtation, fooling, fooling around, gleam, glimmering, glimpse, half learning, handful,… …
15superficiality — Synonyms and related words: a little learning, absentmindedness, amateurism, apparent character, appearance, appearances, aridity, barrenness, big deal, bloodlessness, carelessness, characterlessness, colorlessness, cursoriness, deadness,… …
16sciolism — n. Smattering, shallowness, superficialness, imperfect knowledge, superficial knowledge, slight knowledge …
17smattering — n. Smatter, sciolism, slight knowledge, superficial knowledge, imperfect knowledge …
18inkling — noun Etymology: Middle English yngkiling whisper, mention, probably from inclen to hint at; akin to Old English inca suspicion Date: 1513 1. a slight indication or suggestion ; hint, clue < there was no path no inkling even of a track New Yorker… …
19acquaintance — noun 1 (C) someone you know, but who is not a close friend 2 make sb s acquaintance formal to meet someone for the first time: I m pleased to make your acquaintance. 3 of your acquaintance formal a person of your acquaintance is someone that you… …
20false beginner — UK US noun [countable] [singular false beginner plural false beginners] someone who starts to study a language from the beginning again, although they already have a slight knowledge of it Thesaurus: speaking or translating other languages …
