dilettante :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

dabbler

n. an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge

dilettantish

adj. showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish; "his dilettantish efforts at painting"

esthete, aesthete

n. one who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature

epicure, gourmet, gastronome, epicurean, bon vivant

n. a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)

ace, genius, sensation, star, adept, maven, virtuoso, hotshot, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz

n. someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field

layman, layperson

n. someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person

beginner, novice, tyro, tiro

n. someone new to a field or activity

seeming, ostensible, apparent

adj. appearing as such but not necessarily so; "for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent"; "the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies"; "the ostensible truth of their theories"; "his seeming honesty"

looking, appearing

adj. appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms; "left their clothes dirty looking"; "a most disagreeable looking character"; "angry-looking"; "liquid-looking"; "severe-looking policemen on noble horses"; "fine-sounding phrases"; "taken in by high-sounding talk"

facile

adj. arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth; "too facile a solution for so complex a problem"

shallow, glib

adj. lacking intellectual depth: "glib generalizations"; "shallow people"

summary, potted

adj. (British informal) summarized or abridged; "a potted version of a novel"

slight, sketchy

adj. almost no or (with `a') at least some; very little; "there's slight chance that it will work"; "there's a slight chance it will work"

surface, skin-deep

adj. involving a surface only; "her beauty is only skin-deep"; "superficial bruising"; "a surface wound"

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