'Dabbler' definitions:
Definition of 'dabbler'
From: WordNet
noun
An amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge [syn: dabbler, dilettante, sciolist]
noun
Any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and dabbling [syn: dabbling duck, dabbler] [ant: diving duck]
Definition of 'Dabbler'
From: GCIDE
- Dabbler \Dab"bler\ (d[a^]b"bl[~e]r), n.
- 1. One who dabbles. [1913 Webster]
- 2. One who dips slightly into anything; a superficial meddler. "our dabblers in politics." --Swift. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'dabbler'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abecedarian,
- amateur,
- coquet,
- criticaster,
- dabster,
- dallier,
- dilettante,
- dunce,
- flirt,
- fool,
- fribble,
- grammaticaster,
- greenhorn,
- greeny,
- half scholar,
- ignoramus,
- illiterate,
- illiterati,
- know-nothing,
- lowbrow,
- middlebrow,
- no scholar,
- nonprofessional,
- philologaster,
- philosophaster,
- piddler,
- potterer,
- puddinghead,
- putterer,
- sciolist,
- smatterer,
- Sunday painter,
- tenderfoot,
- trifler,
- tyro,
- unintelligentsia