amateur (n.)
- abecedarian
- admirer
- aesthete
- aficionado
- apprentice
- arbiter
- authority
- beginner
- booster
- buff
- bungler
- cognoscente
- collector
- connoisseur
- crank
- critic
- crude
- dabbler
- dallier
- devotee
- dilettante
- enthusiast
- epicure
- epicurean
- expert
- faddist
- fan
- fancier
- flirt
- follower
- freak
- gourmand
- gourmet
- greenhorn
- groupie
- idolater
- idolizer
- inferior
- judge
- lay
- layman
- maven
- neophyte
- novice
- nut
- potterer
- probationer
- pundit
- putterer
- rooter
- savant
- scholar
- sciolist
- shallow
- smattering
- specialist
- technician
- tinker
- trifler
- tyro
- virtuoso
- votary
- worshiper
- zealot
amateur (adj.)
- abecedarian
- amateurish
- avocational
- buff
- bungling
- clumsy
- crank
- critic
- crude
- dilettante
- dilettantish
- epicurean
- expert
- half-baked
- immature
- inexpert
- inferior
- lay
- mediocre
- nonprofessional
- nut
- sciolistic
- second-rate
- shallow
- superficial
- unpaid
- unprofessional
- unskilled
- untrained
- virtuoso
