dilettante

dilettante is a 10-letter English word with 3 senses as transitive verb, noun, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. 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.
2. noun. an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge

   Synonyms: dabbler, sciolist

3. adjective. showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish

   "his dilettantish efforts at painting"

   Synonyms: dilettanteish, dilettantish, sciolistic

Synonyms

dabbler, sciolist, dilettanteish, dilettantish, sciolistic

Common word forms

dilettantes

Words from these letters

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