dilettante
DIL-uh-tahntnounMeaning a person who dabbles in a subject or an art without serious study
Memory hook DILLY-DALLY-tante: a little of everything. Pip dillydallies: guitar on Monday, painting on Tuesday, chess on Wednesday. He dabbles in each and masters none: he is a dilettante.
He calls himself a painter, but he is a dilettante who finishes about one picture a year.
In context Real gardeners spend years learning their soil, but Marcus was only a dilettante: he planted whatever looked pretty at the store and lost interest by July.
Similar dabbler, hobbyist, trifler
Opposite expert, professional, connoisseur
From Italian dilettante, “a lover of the arts,” from dilettare, “to delight.”