'Dilettante' definitions:
Definition of 'dilettante'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish; "his dilettantish efforts at painting" [syn: dilettante, dilettantish, dilettanteish, sciolistic]
noun
Definition of 'Dilettante'
From: GCIDE
- Dilettante \Dil`et*tan"te\, n.; pl. Dilettanti. [It., prop. p. pr. of dillettare to take delight in, fr. L. delectare to delight. See Delight, v. t.] An admirer or lover of the fine arts; popularly, an amateur; especially, one who follows an art or a branch of knowledge, desultorily, or for amusement only. [1913 Webster]
- The true poet is not an eccentric creature, not a mere artist living only for art, not a dreamer or a dilettante, sipping the nectar of existence, while he keeps aloof from its deeper interests. --J. C. Shairp. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'dilettante'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abecedarian,
- admirer,
- aesthete,
- aficionado,
- amateur,
- arbiter,
- arbiter elegantiarum,
- arbiter of taste,
- authority,
- bon vivant,
- booster,
- buff,
- cognoscente,
- collector,
- connaisseur,
- connoisseur,
- coquet,
- critic,
- criticaster,
- dabbler,
- dabbling,
- dabster,
- dallier,
- devotee,
- dilettantish,
- dunce,
- epicure,
- epicurean,
- expert,
- fan,
- fancier,
- flirt,
- follower,
- fool,
- freak,
- fribble,
- good judge,
- gourmand,
- gourmet,
- grammaticaster,
- greenhorn,
- greeny,
- groupie,
- half scholar,
- idolater,
- idolizer,
- ignoramus,
- illiterate,
- illiterati,
- jackleg,
- judge,
- know-nothing,
- lowbrow,
- maven,
- middlebrow,
- no scholar,
- nonprofessional,
- nut,
- philologaster,
- philosophaster,
- piddler,
- potterer,
- puddinghead,
- pundit,
- putterer,
- refined palate,
- rooter,
- savant,
- scholar,
- sciolist,
- smatterer,
- specialist,
- Sunday painter,
- technical expert,
- technician,
- tenderfoot,
- trifler,
- tyro,
- unaccomplished,
- unfinished,
- ungifted,
- unintelligentsia,
- unskilled,
- virtuoso,
- votary,
- worshiper