amateurish

Related to amateurish: flippancy, tactless

am·a·teur·ish

(ăm′ə-tûr′ĭsh, -cho͝or′-, -tyo͝or′-)

adj.

Characteristic of an amateur; not professional.

am′a·teur′ish·ly adv.

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amateurish

(ˈæmətərɪʃ; -tʃər-; -ˌtʃʊər-; ˌæməˈtɜːrɪʃ)

adj

lacking professional skill or expertise

ˈamateurishly adv

ˈamateurishness n

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am•a•teur•ish

(ˌæm əˈtʃʊər ɪʃ, -ˈtʃɜr-, -ˈtyʊər-, -ˈtɜr-)

adj.

characteristic of an amateur, esp. in having the deficiencies of an amateur.

[1860–65]

am`a•teur′ish•ly, adv.

am`a•teur′ish•ness, n.

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Adj.

amateurish - lacking professional skill or expertise; "a very amateurish job"; "inexpert but conscientious efforts"; "an unskilled painting"

inexpert, unskilled, amateur

unprofessional - not characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession; "described in unprofessional language so that high school students could understand it"; "was censured for unprofessional conduct"; "unprofessional repairs"

amateurish

adjective unprofessional, amateur, crude, bungling, clumsy, inexpert, unaccomplished, unskilful All the paintings were cheap and amateurish.
experienced, professional, skilled, expert, practised

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amateurish

adjective

Lacking the required professional skill:

dilettante, dilettantish, nonprofessional, unprofessional, unskilled, unskillful.

Translations

amatérskýdiletantský

dilettantisk

dilettantisch

amateuramateuriste

szakszerûtlen

viîvaningslegur

dilettantesco

amatørmessig

diletantský

amaterski

amatörce

不够熟练的

amateurish

[ˈæmətərɪʃ] ADJ (pej) → poco profesional, inexperto

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amateurish

[ˈæmətərɪʃ] adj (pejorative) → d'amateur

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amateurish

adj (pej) → dilettantisch; performance, work also → laienhaft

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amateurish

[ˈæmətərɪʃ] adj (pej) → dilettantesco/a, da dilettanti

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amateur

(ˈӕmətə) , ((American) -tʃər) noun

1. a person who takes part in a sport etc without being paid for it. The tennis tournament was open only to amateurs.

2. someone who does something for the love of it and not for money. For an amateur, he was quite a good photographer.

adjective

an amateur golfer; amateur photography.

ˌamaˈteurish (-ˈtəː-) adjective

not very skilful. an amateurish drawing.

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that is because you are dilettantish and amateurish. If you were an artist, you would think of Mistress Second-Cousin as antique form animated by Christian sentiment--a sort of Christian Antigone-- sensuous force controlled by spiritual passion."

I am amateurish if you like: I do not think that all the universe is straining towards the obscure significance of your pictures."

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Then, at the first convenient opportunity, she went down herself, intending to repack her belongings and store them properly in the local warehouse: the plan had been amateurish and a failure.

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That was her final judgment on the story as a whole - amateurish, though she did not tell him so.

He had proved it to-day, with his amateurish and sophomoric productions.

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She had no sympathy with such amateurish love-making.

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Most of the separate tales are crude or amateurish and have only historical interest, though as a class they furnished the plots for many Elizabethan dramas, including several of Shakspere's.

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He goes, in a condescending amateurish way, into the City, attends meetings of Directors, and has to do with traffic in Shares.

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It seemed to her that there was something amateurish in bringing love into touch with a perfectly straightforward friendship, such as hers was with Ralph, which, for two years now, had based itself upon common interests in impersonal topics, such as the housing of the poor, or the taxation of land values.

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"Of a rather amateurish sort, I fear," answered the strange fisherman.

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