dabbling

ADJECTIVE

dilettante

Synonyms

STRONG

green rookie tenderfoot

WEAK

artsy fartsy half-baked half-cocked unaccomplished ungifted unskilled

Antonyms

WEAK

professional

ADJECTIVE

unfinished

Synonyms

STRONGEST

bare incomplete unadorned undeveloped unfulfilled

WEAK

amateurish crude cut short defective deficient dilettante faulty formless found wanting fragmentary half-baked half-done immature imperfect in the making in the rough lacking natural not done plain raw rough roughhewn shapeless sketchy tentative unaccomplished unassembled uncompleted unconcluded under construction undone unexecuted unfashioned unperfected unpolished unrefined wanting

Antonyms

WEAK

completed finished polished refined whole

NOUN

dalliance

Synonyms

STRONG

delay idling loafing playing poking procrastination toying trifling

WEAK

delaying dilly-dallying frittering frivoling loitering procrastinating puttering

Antonyms

WEAK

hastening hurrying push rush

Example Sentences

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He later spent time in Hungary, dabbling in nationalist politics and earning a doctorate degree.

From Salon • Apr. 22, 2026

People experiencing AI burnout are not casually dabbling with the technology -- They are creating legions of agents that need to be constantly managed, according to Tim Norton, founder of the AI integration consultancy nouvreLabs.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

And it been dabbling with artificial intelligence to see if it would be useful.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 23, 2026

But after years of dabbling in pop and hip-hop, Yungblud seemed to reintroduce himself with the widely praised “Changes” performance as an out-and-out rocker.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2025

The Oppenheimer case left Lawrence with a horror of overt dabbling in the security politics of the time.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

dabbling

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