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Amateurish

In the style of an amateur; superficial or defective like the work of an amateur.

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Amateur 74% connected

A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachm…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Amateur 74% connected

A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachm…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Amateur 92% connected

A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachm…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Inexpert 92% connected

Destitute of experience or of much experience.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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A cappella unknown · 78% connection

In church or chapel style; -- said of compositions sung in the old church style, without instrumental accompaniment; as, a mass a cape…

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Amateurism noun · 78% connection

The practice, habit, or work of an amateur.

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Amateurship noun · 78% connection

The quality or character of an amateur.

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Area noun · 78% connection

The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a…

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Aurelian noun · 78% connection

An amateur collector and breeder of insects, esp. of butterflies and moths; a lepidopterist.

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Botch noun · 78% connection

Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finish…

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Cantabile adjective · 78% connection

In a melodious, flowing style; in a singing style, as opposed to bravura, recitativo, or parlando.

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Corinthian adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to an amateur sailor or yachtsman; as, a corinthian race (one in which the contesting yachts must be manned by amateu…

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Dabble verb · 78% connection

To work in slight or superficial manner; to do in a small way; to tamper; to meddle.

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Defective adjective · 78% connection

Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied either to natural or moral qualities; as, a…

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Dial noun · 78% connection

An instrument, formerly much used for showing the time of day from the shadow of a style or gnomon on a graduated arc or surface; esp.…

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Diffuse adjective · 78% connection

Poured out; widely spread; not restrained; copious; full; esp., of style, opposed to concise or terse; verbose; prolix; as, a diffuse…

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Dilettant adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to dilettanteism; amateur; as, dilettant speculation.

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Dilettante verb · 78% connection

An admirer or lover of the fine arts; popularly, an amateur; especially, one who follows an art or a branch of knowledge, desultorily,…

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Dolly Varden unknown · 78% connection

A style of light, bright-figured dress goods for women; also, a style of dress.

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Duodecimal noun · 78% connection

A system of numbers, whose denominations rise in a scale of twelves, as of feet and inches. The system is used chiefly by artificers i…

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Ease noun · 78% connection

Freedom from constraint, formality, difficulty, embarrassment, etc.; facility; liberty; naturalness; -- said of manner, style, etc.; a…

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Energy noun · 78% connection

an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); "his writing conveys great energy"; "a remarkable muscularity of style"

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