0 a person who is or seems to be interested in a subject, but whose understanding of it is not very deep or serious: --
1 a person who is or seems to be interested in a subject, but who is not involved with it in a serious and determined way: --
We must say 'no' to the passive and dilettante attitude of governments that are making life easy for the pirates.
Let us face the fact that most students in universities do not intend when they leave them to lead some dilettante existence.
They have a dilettante approach to the realites of the countryside and of wildlife.
We cannot make do with any dilettante handling of problems of that nature.
I will come later to the needs of the dilettante.
Issawi is on one level an economist; on another, he is a historian; and on a third, he is a dilettante in the true sense of the word.
Shapin (1974, 100) reported that in 1860 it was argued that the society should not exclude the dilettante or amateur.
In other words, the intellectual exclusivity and associated creativity which underpinned the world of the public intellectual has been paradoxically replaced by a dilettante and moribund intellectual culture.
