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Amateur

adjective

Engaged in as a pastime. Synonyms: recreational, unpaid. "Gained valuable experience in amateur theatricals" , "Recreational golfers" , "Reading matter that is both recreational and mentally stimulating" , "Unpaid extras in the documentary"

Lacking professional skill or expertise. Synonyms: amateurish, inexpert, unskilled. "Inexpert but conscientious efforts" , "An unskilled painting"

noun

Someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime.

An athlete who does not play for pay.

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"Amateur" Quotes from Famous Books

... of that time. The liberal education which she had received made the young girl feel perfectly at her ease in such society. In addition to other accomplishments, she was mistress of several ancient and modern languages, and a musical amateur of great promise. ...

— Eclectic School Readings: Stories from Life • Orison Swett Marden

... first scene of The Caprice. Renee was very lively as Mme. de Lery; Henri, in the role of husband, proved himself a talented amateur actor, as so many young men of a cold temperament, and grave society men, often do. Noemi, well sustained by Henri, admirably prompted by Denoisel, and slightly carried away by seeing the large audience, played her touching part as the neglected wife very passably. ...

— Rene Mauperin • Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt

... all my acquaintances think me madder than usual by the pertinacity with which I attended debating societies and haunted all sorts of hole-and-corner debates and public meetings and made speeches at them. I was President of the Local Government Board at an amateur Parliament where a Fabian ministry had to put its proposals into black and white in the shape of Parliamentary Bills. Every Sunday I lectured on some subject which I wanted to teach to myself; and it was not until I had come to the point of being able ...

— The History of the Fabian Society • Edward R. Pease

... painting, and in a remarkable degree the power of imitating it. Connoisseurs approved of his sketches, both in pencil and oils, but not without the sort of criticisms made on these occasions—that they were admirable for an amateur; but it could not be expected that he should submit to the technical drudgery absolutely necessary for a profession, and all that species of criticism which gives way before natural ...

— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott

... the cricket bat bag, which should always be comprised in the outfit of the amateur cricketer, as well as of the professional. In making this we follow the instructions given for the carpet bag. It may be made either of carpet, tan-canvas, or leather, the latter, of course, being the strongest and most expensive. Carpet will not require to be described, but a brief description ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 • Various

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