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Definition of Dilettanteish
1. Adjective. Showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish. "His dilettantish efforts at painting"
Similar to: Superficial
Derivative terms: Dilettante, Sciolism
Definition of Dilettanteish
1. a. Somewhat like a dilettante.
Definition of Dilettanteish
1. Adjective. (alternative form of dilettantish) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dilettanteish
Literary usage of Dilettanteish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sentimental Traveller: Notes on Places by Vernon Lee (1908)
"... description can make you see things unless you have seen them before ; and
that, of all vain dilettanteish writings, these essays of mine must therefore ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1882)
"... head have a remarkably dilettanteish sound. The article might have been written
by the deviser of the plate in the April number, who labels the same ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1884)
"The sixteenth chapter is a discussion of the question of expert testimony, but
the remedies for the evils of the expert system are dilettanteish in ..."
4. The American Journal of Education by Henry Barnard (1859)
"... from which is afterward apt to be derived a weak, indecisive, and dilettanteish
habit of looking for nothing but pleasure in the study. ..."
5. English Lands, Letters and Kings by Donald Grant Mitchell (1889)
"The poet, after his father's death, undertook, in a languid way, the study of
law ; but finally landed again in Cambridge, and was a dilettanteish student ..."
6. Literary Reviews and Criticisms by Prosser Hall Frye (1908)
"Will it seem unprofitably dilettanteish, then, if we add, in closing, that while
a discussion of this kind is invaluable from one point of view, ..."
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