AMATEURISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amateurish mean? 

• AMATEURISH (adjective)
  The adjective AMATEURISH has 1 sense:

1. lacking professional skill or expertise

  Familiarity information: AMATEURISH used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMATEURISH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lacking professional skill or expertise

Synonyms:

amateur; amateurish; inexpert; unskilled

Context example:

an unskilled painting

Similar:

unprofessional (not characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession)

Derivation:

amateurishness (something that demonstrates a lack of professional competency)

 Context examples 

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

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

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

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)