Usually means: Lacking professional skill or expertise.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word amateurish:

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  1. amateurish: Merriam-Webster
  2. amateurish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. amateurish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. amateurish: Collins English Dictionary
  5. amateurish: Vocabulary.com
  6. Amateurish, amateurish: Wordnik
  7. amateurish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. amateurish: Wiktionary
  9. amateurish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. amateurish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. amateurish: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Amateurish, amateurish: Dictionary.com
  13. amateurish: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Amateurish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. amateurish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. amateurish: Rhymezone
  17. Amateurish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. amateurish: FreeDictionary.org
  19. amateurish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. amateurish: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. amateurish: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  22. amateurish: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. amateurish: Encyclopedia

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▸ adjective:  (derogatory) Suggesting or reflecting the efforts of an amateur; not seeming professional or polished.

Similar:
inexpert, unskilled, unprofessional, dilettantish, novicey, coarse-handed, shabby, rough around the edges, crude, rookielike, more...

Types:
shoddy, amateur, amatuer, amateurishness, amateurism, more...

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Similar:
inexpert, unskilled, unprofessional, dilettantish, novicey, coarse-handed, shabby, rough around the edges, crude, rookielike, more...

Types:
shoddy, amateur, amatuer, amateurishness, amateurism, more...



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