Dictionary Definition
dilettante adj : showing frivolous or superficial
interest; amateurish; "his dilettantish efforts at painting" [syn:
dilettantish,
dilettanteish,
sciolistic] n : an
amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and
who pretends to have knowledge [syn: dabbler, sciolist] [also: dilettanti (pl)]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From dilettante.Pronunciation
'di-l&-"tänt, -"tant; "di-l&-'Noun
- A person who enjoys the arts.
- An amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest.
- A person with a broad but superficial interest in an art or a branch of knowledge. (Sometimes derogatory.)
Translations
a person who enjoys the arts
- Hungarian: műkedvelő
an amateur
- Russian: дилетант
a person with a broad but superficial interest
- Hungarian: dilettáns
- Russian: дилетант
- ttbc Catalan: diletant
- ttbc Dutch: dilettant
- ttbc Esperanto: diletanto
- ttbc French: dilettante m|f
- ttbc Interlingua: dilettante
- ttbc Italian: dilettante m|f
- ttbc Macedonian: дилетант
- ttbc Norwegian: dilettant
- ttbc Portuguese: diletante m|f
- ttbc Romanian: diletant
- ttbc Serbian: дилетант (diletant)
- ttbc Spanish: diletante m|f
- ttbc Swedish: dilettant
Interlingua
Noun
dilettanteItalian
Adjective
dilettanteNoun
dilettante m|f (plural: dilettanti)Extensive Definition
Dilettante may refer to:
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Sunday painter, 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, technical expert,
technician, tenderfoot, trifler, tyro, unaccomplished, unfinished, ungifted, unintelligentsia,
unskilled, virtuoso, votary, worshiper