Dabbler: alternatives and connections

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…

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A pet; a darling.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

To wet by little dips or strokes; to spatter; to sprinkle; to moisten; to wet.

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To wet by little dips or strokes; to spatter; to sprinkle; to moisten; to wet.

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

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

One who knows many things superficially; a pretender to science; a smatterer.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.