Amateur

Noun

 * 1)  A lover of: something.
 * 2) A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science  as to music or painting; especially one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally.
 * 3) Someone who is unqualified or insufficiently skillful.

Adjective

 * 1) Non-professional.
 * 2) Created, done, or populated by amateurs or non-professionals.
 * 3) Showing a lack of professionalism, experience or talent.

Adjectives for Amateur
persistent; enterprising; enthusiastic; complacent; inexperienced; deplorable; superficial; distinguished;  literary; gifted.

Verbs for Amateur
bar; brand as; close to s; define; deride; distinguish; encourage; exempt; govern; handicap; outdistance; purge s; repudiate; restrict s; rules; safeguard; sanction; vindicate; aspires to; attains; barters; competes; cultivates;  devotes;  engages  in; participates; preserves his status; stresses.

Synonyms for Amateur
nonprofessional, beginner, learner, neophyte, dilettante, bungler.

Antonyms for Amateur
professional, scholar, master.

Thesaurus
Sunday painter; abecedarian; admirer; aesthete; aficionado; amateurish; apprentice; arbiter; arbiter elegantiarum; arbiter of taste; authority; avocational; beginner; bon vivant; booster; buff; bungler; bungling; clumsy; cognoscente; collector; connaisseur; connoisseur; coquet; crank; critic; criticaster; crude; dabbler; dabbling; dabster; dallier; devotee; dilettante; dilettantish; enthusiast; epicure; epicurean; expert; faddist; fan; fancier; flirt; follower; freak; fribble; good judge; gourmand; gourmet; grammaticaster; greenhorn; groupie; half scholar; half-assed; half-baked; half-cocked; idolater; idolizer; immature; inexpert; infatuate; inferior; judge; lay; layman; maven; mediocre; neophyte; nonprofessional; novice; nut; philologaster; philosophaster; piddler; potterer; probationer; pundit; putterer; refined palate; rooter; savant; scholar; sciolist; sciolistic; second-rate; shallow; smatterer; smattering; sophomoric; specialist; superficial; technical expert; technician; tinker; trifler; tyro; unpaid; unprofessional; unskilled; untrained; virtuoso; votary; worshiper; zealot