Someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime.

Roget 541: learner, scholar, student, pupil; apprentice, prentice^†, journeyman; articled clerk; beginner, tyro, amateur, rank amateur; abecedarian, alphabetarian^†; alumnus, eleve [Fr.].    recruit, raw recruit, novice, neophyte, inceptor^†, catechumen, probationer; seminarian, chela, fellow-commoner; debutant.    [apprentice medical doctors] intern; resident.    schoolboy; fresh, freshman, frosh; junior soph^†, junior; senior soph^†, senior; sophister^†, sophomore; questionist^†.    [college and university students] undergraduate; graduate student; law student; medical student; pre-med; post-doctoral student, post-doc; matriculated student; part-time student, night student, auditor.    [group of learners] class, grade, seminar, form, remove; pupilage etc. (learning) 539.    disciple, follower, apostle, proselyte; fellow-student, condisciple^†.    [place of learning] school etc. 542.    ... show more

Roget 865: desire, wish, fancy, fantasy; want, need, exigency.    mind, inclination, leaning, bent, animus, partiality, penchant, predilection; propensity etc. 820; willingness etc. 602; liking, love, fondness, relish.    longing, hankering, inkling; solicitude, anxiety; yearning, coveting; aspiration, ambition, vaulting ambition; eagerness, zeal, ardor, empressement [Fr.], breathless impatience, overanxiety; impetuosity, etc. 825.    appetite, appetition^†, appetence^†, appetency^†; sharp appetite, keenness, hunger, stomach, twist; thirst, thirstiness; drouth, mouthwatering; itch, itching; prurience, cacoethes [Lat.], cupidity, lust, concupiscence.    edge of appetite, edge of hunger; torment of Tantalus; sweet tooth, lickerish tooth^†; itching palm; longing eye, wistful eye, sheep's eye.    [excessive desire for money] greed etc. 817.1. voracity etc. (gluttony) 957.    passion, rage, furore^†, mania, manie^†; inextinguishable desire; dipsomania, kleptomania.    [Person who desires] lover, amateur, votary, devotee, aspirant, solicitant, candidate, applicant, supplicant; cormorant etc. 957.    [Object of desire] desideratum; want etc. (requirement) 630; a consummation devoutly to be wished;" attraction, magnet, allurement, fancy, temptation, seduction, fascination, prestige, height of one's ambition, idol; whim, whimsy, whimsey^†; maggot; hobby, hobby-horse.    Fortunatus's cap; wishing cap, wishing stone, wishing well.    ... show more

Roget 701: bungler; blunderer, blunderhead^†; marplot, fumbler, lubber, duffer, dauber, stick; bad hand, poor hand, poor shot; butterfingers^†.    no conjurer, flat, muff, slow coach, looby^†, lubber, swab; clod, yokel, awkward squad, blanc-bec; galoot^†.    land lubber; fresh water sailor, fair weather sailor; horse marine; fish out of water, ass in lion's skin, jackdaw in peacock's feathers; quack etc. (deceiver) 548; lord of misrule.    sloven, slattern, trapes^†.    amateur, novice, greenhorn (learner) 541.    ... show more

Roget 493: ignoramus, dunce; wooden spoon; no scholar.    [insulting terms for ignorant person:] (imbecility) 499 (folly) 501 moron, imbecile, idiot; fool, jerk, nincompoop, asshole [Vulg.].    [person with superficial knowledge] dilettante, sciolist^†, smatterer, dabbler, half scholar; charlatan; wiseacre.    greenhorn, amateur etc. (dupe) 547; novice, tyro etc. (learner) 541; numskull.    lubber etc. (bungler) 701; fool etc. 501; pedant etc. 492.    ... show more

Roget 850: taste; good taste, refined taste, cultivated taste; delicacy, refinement, fine feeling, gust, gusto, tact, finesse; nicety etc. (discrimination) 465; to prepon [Gr.]; polish, elegance, grace.    judgment, discernment etc. 465.    dilettantism, dilettanteism; virtu; fine art; culture, cultivation.    [Science of taste] aesthetics.    man of taste &c.; connoisseur, judge, critic, conoscente, virtuoso, amateur, dilettante, Aristarchus^†, Corinthian, arbiter elegantiarum [Lat.], stagirite^†, euphemist.    caviare to the general" [Hamlet]. ... show more

Dutch: fan, supporter, amateur, dilettant, hobbyist, liefhebber, vreemdeling
Polish: amator, niefachowiec, nieprofesjonalista, niezawodowiec

An athlete who does not play for pay.

Polish: amator

Engaged in as a pastime:
— An amateur painter.
— Gained valuable experience in amateur theatricals.

synonyms: recreational, unpaid.

Polish: nieprofesjonalny, niezawodowy, amatorski

Lacking professional skill or expertise:
— A very amateurish job.

synonyms: amateurish, inexpert, unskilled.

Polish: nieprofesjonalny, dyletancki, amatorski, laicki, niefachowy