amateur
— Noun
– English
～ an athlete who does not play for pay
amateur
— Noun
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～ someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime
amateurish
— Adjective
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～ lacking professional skill or expertise; "a very amateurish job"; "inexpert but conscientious efforts"; "an unskilled painting"
amateurishly
— Adverb
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～ in an amateurish manner; "he performed the piece amateurishly"
amateurishness
— Noun
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～ something that demonstrates a lack of professional competency
amateurism
— Noun
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～ the conviction that people should participate in sports as a hobby (for the fun of it) rather than for money
amati
— Noun
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～ Italian violin maker in Cremona; taught the craft to Guarneri and Stradivari (1596-1684)
Amati
— Noun
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～ a violin made by Nicolo Amati or a member of his family
amative
— Adjective
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～ inclined toward or displaying love; "feeling amorous"
amativeness
— Noun
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～ the arousal of feelings of sexual desire
amatory
— Adjective
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～ expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance; "her amatory affairs"; "amorous glances"; "a romantic adventure"; "a romantic moonlight ride"
amatungulu
— Noun
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～ very large closely branched South African shrub having forked bright green spines and shiny leaves
Amauropelta
— Noun
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～ epiphytic or terrestrial ferns of America and Africa and Polynesia
amaurosis
— Noun
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～ partial or total loss of sight without pathology of the eye; caused by disease of optic nerve or retina or brain
amaurotic
— Adjective
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～ pertaining to blindness caused by amaurosis
amaze
— Verb
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～ affect with wonder; "Your ability to speak six languages amazes me!"
amaze
— Verb
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～ be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me"
amazed
— Adjective
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～ filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock; "an amazed audience gave the magician a standing ovation"; "I stood enthralled, astonished by the vastness and majesty of the cathedral"; "astounded viewers wept at the pictures from the Oklahoma City bombing"; "stood in stunned silence"; "stunned scientists found not one but at least three viruses"
amazement
— Noun
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～ the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising; "he looked at me in astonishment"
amazing
— Adjective
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～ inspiring awe or admiration or wonder; "New York is an amazing city"; "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight"; "the awesome complexity of the universe"; "this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath"- Melville; "Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent"