n
A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, science, or art (such as music or painting), especially one who cultivates any study, interest, taste, or attachment without engaging in it professionally.
n
(chiefly US, idiomatic) A situation or activity in which the participants show a lack of skill, sound judgment, or professionalism.
adj
(of acts) Neither moral nor immoral.
adj
Amateurish, unprofessional, unpolished, juvenile.
n
(fandom slang) A person whose engagement with media is relaxed or superficial.
n
(in attributive use) Uninitiated, outside, “profane”.
n
Alternative form of dilettante [An amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest.]
n
An amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest.
adj
Alternative form of dilettantish [amateurish]
adj
Alternative form of ethically challenged [(humorous, euphemistic) Unethical; dishonest.]
n
(Australian politics, informal) Someone who is not elected to political office, but exerts power over political affairs from behind the scenes.
n
(religion, in the plural) Sins committed through ignorance.
n
The support or promotion of ignorance.
adj
Obsolete form of impolitic. [Not in accordance with good policy.]
n
An ignorant person; one who lacks knowledge.
n
A perverse admiration or embrace of ignorance.
n
A person who is untrained or lacks knowledge of a subject.
adj
Unhappy because of feeling isolated from contact with other people.
n
(Jewish slang) irrelevant, everyday matters
adj
(grammar) Abbreviation of negative. [Not positive nor neutral.]
n
(athletics) Abbreviation of no-mark. [(Britain, slang) An insignificant person; one who fails to make a mark.]
v
to work in an amateur fashion for little gain
adj
Having a false appearance of innocence.
n
Someone who is not socially or politically active.
adj
non-professional; amateur
adj
Less than criminal; not serious enough to count as a crime or a criminal.
adj
Having less proficiency than an expert.
n
A person working at less than professional level.
v
Alternative form of unfriend [(rare) To sever as friends.]
n
(derogatory) The collective group of people who are considered to be uneducated, uninformed, or in some other way unqualified for inclusion in the speaker's elite circles.
n
A group of people who are very far from stardom, unlike the A-list.
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