单词	dilettante
释义	dilettantedil‧et‧tan‧te /ˌdɪləˈtænti $ -ˈtɑːnti/ noun [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINdilettante Origin: 1700-1800 Italian present participle of dilettare ‘to give pleasure to’, from Latin delectare; ➔ DELIGHT2 Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Morrison is no dilettante - the music is clean and professional. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS I know that I will always be a dilettante by comparison. I was always a dilettante when it came to alienation. Mr Rolleman was in a sense right in his opinion of me: I am by his standards a dilettante. The drug is still occasionally used experimentally by scientists, psychiatrists, and philosophers, as well as by dilettante drug takers. The fancy taste for ornaments and trinkets displayed by these peculiar birds appealed to the Victorian dilettante. There is now no room for the amateur or the dilettante in the business. someone who is not serious about what they are doing or does not study a subject thoroughly—dilettante adjective [only before noun]
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