Antonym: professional. Similar words: antediluvian, debutante, instantaneous, vendetta, dilemma, rattan, crocodile, pittance. Meaning: [‚dɪlɪ'tæntɪ] 
n. an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge. adj. showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish.
n. an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge. adj. showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish. 
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1) He's a bit of a dilettante as far as wine is concerned.
2) I know that I will always be a dilettante by comparison.
3) Morrison is no dilettante - the music is clean and professional.
4) I was always a dilettante when it came to alienation.
5) Is the affection between and person so dilettante really?
6) I'm too serious to be a dilettante and too much a dabbler to be a professional.
7) Dilettante: a philanderer who seduces the several arts and letters each in turn for another.
8) They will be even more effective if the dilettante - ish applies himself.
9) Dilettante watch the scene of bustle, adept guard the entrance.
10) The drug is still occasionally used experimentally by scientists, psychiatrists, and philosophers, as well as by dilettante drug takers.
11) Mr Rolleman was in a sense right in his opinion of me: I am by his standards a dilettante.
12) There is now no room for the amateur or the dilettante in the business.
13) The fancy taste for ornaments and trinkets displayed by these peculiar birds appealed to the Victorian dilettante.
14) He is a master of that area even if he is a dilettante.
More similar words: antediluvian, debutante, instantaneous, vendetta, dilemma, rattan, crocodile, pittance, predilection, admittance, crocodile tears, eau de toilette, manhattan project, extant, blatant, distant, instant, ante, mercantile, constant, exultant, hesitant, combatant, militant, important, pollutant, repentant, assistant, resistant, tantalize.