dilettante

Word family

SUBJECTsomeone who is not serious about what they are doing or does not study a subject thoroughly 浅薄的涉猎者，半吊子

—dilettante adjectiveadj [only before noun]

Examples from the Corpus

dilettante• I was always a dilettante when it came to alienation.• I know that I will always be a dilettante by comparison.• Mr Rolleman was in a sense right in his opinion of me: I am by his standards a dilettante.• The drug is still occasionally used experimentally by scientists, psychiatrists, and philosophers, as well as by dilettante drug takers.• Morrison is no dilettante - the music is clean and professional.• There is now no room for the amateur or the dilettante in the business.• The fancy taste for ornaments and trinkets displayed by these peculiar birds appealed to the Victorian dilettante.

Origin dilettante

(1700-1800) Italian present participle of dilettare “to give pleasure to”, from Latin delectare; → DELIGHT2

Chinese

Syllable

Corpus

BNC: 34000 COCA: 27819

dilettante

People who are enthusiastic: enthusiast, fan, devotee...