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dilettante

[ dil-i-tahnt, dil-i-tahnt, -tahn-tey, -tan-tee ]

noun

plural dilettantes, dilettanti
  1. a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, especially in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler.

    Synonyms:

  2. a lover of an art or science, especially of a fine art.


adjective

  1. of or relating to dilettantes.

dilettante

/ 藢诲瑟濒瑟藞迟蓱藧苍迟瑟 /

noun

  1. a person whose interest in a subject is superficial rather than professional
  2. a person who loves the arts
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. of or characteristic of a dilettante
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

dilettante

  1. Someone who is interested in the fine arts as a spectator, not as a serious practitioner. Dilettante is most often used to mean a dabbler, someone with a broad but shallow attachment to any field.
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Derived Forms

  • 藢诲颈濒别迟藞迟补苍迟颈蝉尘, noun
  • 藢诲颈濒别迟藞迟补苍迟颈蝉丑, adjective
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 诲颈濒顎卐迟路迟补苍顎僼颈蝉丑 诲颈濒顎卐迟路迟补苍顎僼别路颈蝉丑 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of dilettante1

1725鈥35; < Italian, noun use of present participle of dilettare < Latin 诲脓濒别肠迟腻谤别 to delight
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of dilettante1

C18: from Italian, from dilettare to delight, from Latin 诲脓濒别肠迟腻谤别
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"But it's not a question of someone's dilettante interest. This is actually really important to advancing people's health. And so there's a lot of .. moral distress if you can't do sex differences research," Ahmed said.

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Him and all the other dilettantes who don鈥檛 know the wonders of VistaVision.

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She characterized those years in her autobiography as: 鈥淒esultory intellectual chitchat, drugs, hip aristocrats, languid dilettantes and high naughtiness. I knew I was on my path!鈥

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And he has often been underestimated, such as when he won a majority government in 2015 at the age of 44, despite being portrayed by his political opponents as something of a dilettante.

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Crystal does fine in this environment; he doesn鈥檛 come off as a tourist or a dilettante.

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