Definitionadj. showing frivolous or superficial interest
Last update: August 2, 2016
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Catulus in the preceding generation, was a kind of dilettante poet and a precursor of the poetry of pleasure, which attained such prominence in the elegiac poets of the Augustan age. [noun]
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The composition of didactic, lyrical and elegiac poetry also was the accomplishment and pastime of an educated dilettante class, the only extant specimens of any interest being some of the Silvae of Statius. [noun]
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He must be neither a dilettante nor a virtuoso: but he must be artistic. [noun]
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There had been little of dilettante science, or graceful play of wrist in this encounter. [noun]
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And I'm a leisured dilettante compared to most of the others.' [Please select]
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It was quite impossible to fool my dilettante cat on that note. [Please select]
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Would the mental and physical equipment of a painter, heretofore dilettante, enable him to become self-supporting. [Please select]
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He was a dilettante in love, as he was in art. [Please select]
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