noun
- An amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge.
adjective
- Showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish.
- usage: "his dilettantish efforts at painting"
- synonyms: dilettantish, dilettanteish, sciolistic
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