Amateur is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for AMATEUR in dictionary:

NOUN:
• one who engages in an activity for pleasure
• a person who is contemptibly inept at a particular activity
• a person who engages in a pursuit, especially a sport, on an unpaid basis
• done in an inept or unskilful way
• engaging or engaged in without payment; non-professional
• person who engages in a sport or activity as a pastime rather than as a profession
• A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally.
• someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime
• an athlete who does not play for pay
ADJECTIVE:
• engaged in as a pastime
• lacking professional skill or expertise
• not professional
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• one that engages in an activity for pleasure

Words related to AMATEUR

amateurism14 amateurisms15 amateurs10 amateurship18

Words that contain AMATEUR

amateurs10 shamateur14 amateurish15 amateurism14 shamateurs15 amateurisms15 amateurship18 amateurishly20 amateurships19 shamateurism19 shamateurisms20 amateurishness19 amateurishnesse20 amateurishnesses21

How to use AMATEUR in a sentence

• If there be not the zeal of the amateur, the skill of the professor will be of little avail.
• He was the more careful not to shake the nerve of his amateur assistants.
• Not for me to attempt detailed consideration, even if it were not the duty of every amateur to fall a victim at first hand to Mr.
• It is quite a common idea for an amateur to attribute his failures to defects in his material or outfit.
• Glass is the cheapest, and for an amateur will do very well, but for a professed artist the Britania should always be obtained.
• What you have to remember, my dear sir, if you wish to achieve success, is that music, if it is to sell, must appeal to the average amateur young person.
• These workers also performed amateur post office duties.
• The wealthy banker, Cliffort, first among amateur botanists of his day, invited Linnaeus to visit him at his country-house at Hartecamp.
• He was then a member of an amateur club in Philadelphia, for which she acted as a sort of treasurer, taking care of the money that they raised to buy balls with, etc.
• After a few years the Amateur National Association passed out of existence.
• The second was the case of a young lady, an amateur singer, who was anxious to know why she failed to get satisfactory results.
• Yet see what wonders he has worked! Still, he remains, in the War Office sense, an amateur.
• The professional in these various fields of aesthetic endeavour, has shown either indifference or active hostility toward all manner of amateur efforts at self-expression.
• But he always played in the band of the Five Towns Amateur Operatic Society, and was beloved by its conductor as being utterly reliable.
• The curiosity of the Rockport amateur, however, had to be satisfied before further service could be had from him.
• We learn that these amateur authors did not permit their victims to forget the engagement, but sent them more than one reminder.
• Even the most serious women of the present day stand, in any work they undertake, in precisely the same relation to men that the amateur stands to the professional in games.
• It afterward came out that the amateur who had offered to perform on it had been seized with a panic at the moment when he should have made his appearance before the audience.
• I hold the low amateur score for the course, and only yesterday came within a stroke of defeating Wallace.
• This is material from which the amateur could derive real enjoyment and profit.
• He examined his treasure over and over, and felt sure that it was the work of no amateur beginner, but of a trained hand and a true artist-soul.
• It appeals to the boy as well as the more mature amateur.
• But I was not long unaware that this was more than a mere amateur.

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