smatterer
21putterer — Synonyms and related words: Sunday painter, amateur, clock watcher, coquet, dabbler, dallier, dawdle, dawdler, diddler, dilettante, dillydallier, do nothing, dolittle, doodler, faineant, flirt, fribble, gentleman of leisure, goldbrick,… …
22trifler — 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,… …
23tyro — Synonyms and related words: abecedarian, alphabetarian, apprentice, articled clerk, baby, beginner, boot, catechumen, colt, dabbler, deb, debutant, dilettante, entrant, fledgling, freshman, greenhorn, greeny, ignoramus, inductee, infant, initiate …
24amateur — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. nonprofessional, beginner; dilettante; volunteer. See beginning, taste. Ant., professional, connoisseur. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. nonprofessional, lay, unpaid, inexperienced, avocational,… …
25dilettante — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. amateur, enthusiast; dabbler, poetaster; lightweight, poseur, pretender, faker. See taste, ignorance. Ant., professional. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. dabbler, trifler, aesthete, amateur; see amateur . See …
26dabbler — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. dilettante, amateur, tinkerer, novice; see amateur , trifler . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. amateur, hobbyist, tinkerer, dilettante, novice, putterer, layman, nonprofessional. ANT.: master, expert, professional III… …
27nonprofessional — (Roget s Thesaurus II) I noun One lacking professional skill and ease in a particular pursuit: amateur, dabbler, dilettante, smatterer, uninitiate. See ABILITY. II adjective Lacking the required professional skill: amateurish, dilettante,… …
28uninitiate — (Roget s Thesaurus II) I adjective Lacking experience and the knowledge gained from it: green, inexperienced, inexpert, raw, uninitiated, unpracticed, unseasoned, untried, unversed. See ABILITY. II noun One lacking professional skill and ease in… …
29Ignoramus — (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 …
30sciolist — 1610s, smatterer, pretender to knowledge, from L.L. sciolus one who knows a little, dim. of scius knowing, from scire to know (see SCIENCE (Cf. science)) + IST (Cf. ist) …
