Dilettante: alternatives and connections

Of or pertaining to the superficies, or surface; lying on the surface; shallow; not deep; as, a superficial color; a superficial covering; superficia…

Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.

Of or pertaining to the superficies, or surface; lying on the surface; shallow; not deep; as, a superficial color; a superficial covering; superficia…

Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.

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…

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

One who dabbles.

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.

Somewhat like a dilettante.

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.

Dilettanteish.

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.

Of or pertaining to sciolism, or a sciolist; partaking of sciolism; resembling a sciolist.

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.