Dilettante

What do we mean by dilettante?

One who dabbles in an art or a field of knowledge. noun

A lover of the fine arts. noun

Superficial; amateurish. adjective

An admirer or lover of the fine arts, science, or letters; an amateur; one who pursues an art or literature desultorily and for amusement: often used in a disparaging sense for a superficial and affected dabbler in literature or art. noun

Relating to dilettantism; having the characteristics of dilettanti.

To play the dilettante.

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. noun

An amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest. noun

A person with a general but superficial interest in any art or a branch of knowledge. noun

Pertaining to or like a dilettante. adjective

An amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge noun

Showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish adjective

An amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest.

(sometimes offensive) A person with a general but superficial interest in any art or a branch of knowledge.

Person who who relentlessly fails to figure out what they “want to do with their life” and thus flits from interest to interest like a hummingbird among lilies. Often well-meaning, empathetic, and creative, the dilettante shoots him/herself in the foot over and over again by forsaking specific skills and knowledge and starting from scratch. Traditionally, only royalty and aristocrats could play at dilettantism, but the type has proliferated since since mid-century prosperity in North America, Europe, and elsewhere has expanded the middle- and, especially, upper-middle class. The dilettante has reached its apotheosis in contemporary millennials, especially college-educated ones. They tend to feel alienated by corporate culture and spurned by the economic crisis, and postpone taking on family responsibility, which usually ends dilettantism, until later than previous generations. The dilettante is an easy target for scorn, but essentially tragic, often overwrought, full of angst, sometimes tormented by the “grass is greener” fantasy. Most dilettantes eventually grow out of their dilettantism—making it a phase disease—and settle into something that provides constancy and direction to their lives. Urban Dictionary

A person prone to become mildly involved with or superficially interested in various subjects instead of developing any specific skill or knowledge to its fullest. Often used to describe amateur or wanna-be artists. Urban Dictionary

A person who has superficial interest in a subject but lacks real knowledge of it. Urban Dictionary

A person who thinks they know everything about a topic. Urban Dictionary

Someone who spends all their time watching DIY shows, going to DIY websites, and reading DIY books but never actually does any DIY projects to completion. Urban Dictionary

Caroline Calloway Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to dilettante:
dilettante, dilettant, dilettanti, dilettantes.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word dilettante:
piedmont, serie, colors, detective, italian, amateur, painter, plays, artist, poet, classical, journalist, serious, von, currently, association, friend, club, press, football, society, titles, interest, academy, sir, daughter.

Adjectives that are often used to describe dilettante:
mere, literary, wealthy, young, rich, political, intellectual, musical, aristocratic, gifted, brilliant, enthusiastic, sterile, idle, true, artistic, talented, clever, charming, elegant, gentle, english, amiable, cultured, typical, accomplished, scientific, greatest, superficial, professional, century, philosophical, nondescript, inspired, fastidious, complete, learned, informed, fashionable, european, cultivated, academic, incurious, lazy, romantic, pure, perfect, incomparable, frivolous, class, versatile, imperial, less, eccentric, foppish, royal, ordinary, universal, somewhat, austere, distinguished, elderly, leisured, spiritual, fascinating, genuine, aimless, italian, handsome, curious, ineffectual, amateur, hollow, aesthetic, genteel, noble, incompetent, ridiculous, intelligent, selfish, ideal, thorough, zealous, sceptical.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective dilettante:
stalks, way, fashion, artist, manner, sort, criticism, poet, work, scholarship, type, hater, curtain, salecatalogues, philosophers, appearance, management, elements, spirit, pace, ism, lifter, god.

Consonant match to dilettante:
dilatant, dilettant, dilutant, dilletante.

Words that sound like dilettante:
dilettante, dilettantes, dilettant, dilettantish, distante, dilutant, delahanty, delante, dilatant, delmonte, del monte, dolente, dilatate, delight in, diluent, dildine, delahunt.