All amateur synonyms
am·a·teur
A a noun amateur
- dilettante — a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, especially in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler.
- tenderfoot — a raw, inexperienced person; novice.
- ham — the second son of Noah, Gen. 10:1.
- beginner — A beginner is someone who has just started learning to do something and cannot do it very well yet.
- learner — a person who is learning; student; pupil; apprentice; trainee.
- novice — a person who is new to the circumstances, work, etc., in which he or she is placed; beginner; tyro: a novice in politics.
- recruit — a newly enlisted or drafted member of the armed forces.
- neophyte — a beginner or novice: He's a neophyte at chess.
- hopeful — full of hope; expressing hope: His hopeful words stimulated optimism.
- aspirant — Someone who is an aspirant to political power or to an important job has a strong desire to achieve it.
- abecedarian — a person who is learning the alphabet or the rudiments of a subject
- layperson — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
- dabbler — to play and splash in or as if in water, especially with the hands.
- greenhorn — an untrained or inexperienced person.
- tyro — a beginner in learning anything; novice.
- apprentice — An apprentice is a young person who works for someone in order to learn their skill.
- probationer — a person undergoing probation or trial.
- putter — to busy or occupy oneself in a leisurely, casual, or ineffective manner: to putter in the garden.
- nonprofessional — not a member of or trained in a specific profession.
- sunday driver — a person who drives a car inexpertly, especially slowly or overcautiously, in the manner of one who drives infrequently.
- bush leaguer — Also called busher. Baseball. a player in a minor league. an incompetent player, as one who behaves or plays as if he or she belonged in a minor league.
adjective amateur
- unprofessional — not professional; not pertaining to or characteristic of a profession.
- sloppy — muddy, slushy, or very wet: The field was a sloppy mess after the rain.
- slapdash — in a hasty, haphazard manner: He assembled the motor slapdash.
- substandard — below standard or less than adequate: substandard housing conditions.
- incompetent — not competent; lacking qualification or ability; incapable: an incompetent candidate.
- inexpert — not expert; unskilled.
- unskillful — not skillful; clumsy or bungling.
- shoddy — of poor quality or inferior workmanship: a shoddy bookcase.
- amateurish — If you describe something as amateurish, you think that it is not skilfully made or done.
- slipshod — careless, untidy, or slovenly: slipshod work.
- clumsy — A clumsy person moves or handles things in a careless, awkward way, often so that things are knocked over or broken.
- crude — A crude method or measurement is not exact or detailed, but may be useful or correct in a rough, general way.
- inept — without skill or aptitude for a particular task or assignment; maladroit: He is inept at mechanical tasks. She is inept at dealing with people.
- part-time — employed to work, used, expected to function, etc., less than the usual or full time: a part-time clerk.
- unpaid — a simple past tense and past participle of pay1 .
- recreational — of or relating to recreation: recreational facilities in the park.
- leisure — freedom from the demands of work or duty: She looked forward to retirement and a life of leisure.