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dabbler
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun dabbler has 2 senses
- dabbler(n = noun.person) dilettante, sciolist - an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge; Array is a kind of amateur
- dabbler(n = noun.animal) dabbling duck - any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and dabbling; Array is a kind of duck
Derived form verb dabble3
THESAURUS
dabbler
Sunday painter, abecedarian, amateur, coquet, criticaster, dabster, dallier, dilettante, dunce, flirt, fool, fribble, grammaticaster, greenhorn, greeny, half scholar, ignoramus, illiterate, illiterati, know-nothing, lowbrow, middlebrow, no scholar, nonprofessional, philologaster, philosophaster, piddler, potterer, puddinghead, putterer, sciolist, smatterer, tenderfoot, trifler, tyro, unintelligentsiaROGET THESAURUS
dabbler
Ignoramus
N ignoramus, dunce, wooden spoon, no scholar, (imbecility) 499 (folly) 501 moron, imbecile, idiot, fool, jerk, nincompoop, asshole, dilettante, sciolist, smatterer, dabbler, half scholar, charlatan, wiseacre, greenhorn, amateur, novice, tyro, numskull, lubber, fool, pedant, bookless, shallow, ignorant, a wit with dunces and a dunce with wits.
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