dabbler

Noun

Meaning

One who dabbles.

One who dips slightly into anything; a superficial meddler.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

dilettante amateur sciolist dabbling duck babe colt cub loafer laity layman aspirant dunce Greenhorn recruit apprentice
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Antonyms

professional national pro wizard maven local
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Hypernyms

duck amateur

Anagrams

drabble rabbled barbled

Examples

If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict. Desiderius Erasmus

For example, in "Lost Hearts", pubescent children are taken in by a sinister dabbler in the occult who cuts their hearts from their still-living bodies. Source: Internet

He was as far removed from the narrowness of the specialist who has no ideas or sympathies beyond just one author or corner of science as he was from the shallow dabbler who feverishly attempts to master the details of a half-dozen unrelated pursuits. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

dabble with dabbled dabblement dabblesome dabbling dabbling duck