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dilettante - Dictionary definition and meaning for dilettante

DILETTANTE

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  • (noun) an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge

    synonyms : dabbler , sciolist
  • (adj.) showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish

    "his dilettantish efforts at painting"

    synonyms : dilettanteish , dilettantish , sciolistic

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.

Mnemonics for dilettante

  • (Tag: Hindi) i called ramu tent wala and ramu tied dhilla(loose) tent because he was dilettante.

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  • (Tag: Telugu) DIL(my heart) ETTANTE ATU..watever my heart says ill jus follow bilndly

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  • (Tag: Hindi mix) 'Dil' (Heart)+ 'e' (hey) + ttante sounds like (anti). So when you are doing any work against your heart, you don't take it seriously.

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  • (Tag: Assimilator) DIE + LET (t) + ANT + (e) = An amateur who lets the ant die because of lack of expertise

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  • (Tag: ) If you move the 'di' to the end of the word, you can get 'let ants die', which someone who kept an ant farm for superficial reasons would do

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  • (Tag: english) dilettant sounds like DEBUTANT (an unskilled person)

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  • (Tag: ) dilettante - let + ant let me follow the ant ( imagine ants moving one behind the other even i will do the same ) so i am aimless follower

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  • (Tag: ) divide it like dilett+ante(aunt)...dilett(sounds like DELIGHT)......so your AUNT who does painting just becoz she gets DELIGHTED BY DOING THIS..BUT SHE DOES NOT HAVe any interest in it to persue it further as her career.

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