Meaning & use
dabbler
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A person who engages in an activity casually or superficially rather than seriously or expertly.
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He's a dabbler in painting, never quite committing to formal lessons.
Critics dismissed her as a mere dabbler, though her later work proved them wrong.
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Derived from "dabble," meaning to play in water, the word's figurative sense of casual involvement dates to the seventeenth century.
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