dilettante
/dɪlɪˈtænti//ˈdɪlɪˌtɑnt/
dilettante noun: an amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest.
Noun
dilettante (plural dilettanti or dilettantes)
- An amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest.
- Antonyms:
- professional
- A person with a general but superficial interest in any art or a branch of knowledge.
- A comment like "The author is a self-important dilettante." is really nothing more than a pretentious version of "u r a fag."2008 March, Paul Graham, How to Disagree
- “Call me Zack Ransom.” “And I'm Gilbert Manhandle, literary dilettante with a gambling addiction.” “Nobody's going to remember that. You can be Zandy Billups.” “Fine. But I'm still a gambling addict.”2024 October 31, Stephanie Amante-Ritter, “The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel” (3:33 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 5, episode 3, spoken by Andy Billups (Paul Scheer)
Adjective
dilettante (comparative more dilettante, superlative most dilettante)
- Pertaining to or like a dilettante.
dilettante meaning in Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam
dilettante in Hindi
- someone who dabbles
- अध्यवसायी adhyavsāyī, अपूर्ण ज्ञाता apūrṇ jñātā
- person with a general but superficial interest
- अनुरागी anurāgī, शौक़ीन śauqīn
- pertaining to or like a dilettante
- कला-प्रेमी kalā-premī, अध्यवसायी कलाकार adhyavsāyī kalākār, अपूर्ण ज्ञाता apūrṇ jñātā
dilettante in Tamil
- கலை அபிமானி, கலைப் பிரியர்
dilettante in Malayalam
- amateur, dabbler, nonprofessional
- ലളിതകലാരതൻ, പലവിഷയങ്ങളിൽ വ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്നവൻ, കലോപാസകനായി ഭാവിക്കുന്നവൻ, പൂർണ്ണവെെദഗ്ദ്ധ്യം നേടിയിട്ടില്ലാത്തവൻ, അവിദഗ്ദ്ധൻ, സാധാരണക്കാരൻ
Synonyms of dilettante
Antonyms
Forms of dilettante
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | dilettanti |
| plural | dilettantes |
| alternative form | dilettant |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more dilettante |
| superlative | most dilettante |
Origin of dilettante
From Italian dilettante, present participle of dilettare (“to delight”), from Latin dēlectāre (“to delight”).
Words formed from dilettante
Questions about dilettante
- What does dilettante mean?
- Dilettante means an amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest.
- What is dilettante in Hindi?
- Dilettante in Hindi is अध्यवसायी (adhyavsāyī), अपूर्ण ज्ञाता (apūrṇ jñātā), अनुरागी (anurāgī). See Dilettante meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is dilettante?
- Dilettante can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce dilettante?
- Dilettante is pronounced /dɪlɪˈtænti/ (UK).
- What is the plural of dilettante?
- The plural of dilettante is dilettanti.
Words near dilettante in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: dilettante (page history and authors); dilettante (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dilettante (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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