Difference between Amateur and Amateurish

What is the difference between Amateur and Amateurish?

Amateur as an adjective is non-professional. while Amateurish as an adjective is suggesting or reflecting the efforts of an amateur; not seeming professional or polished.

Amateur

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Non-professional. Created, done, or populated by amateurs or non-professionals. Showing a lack of professionalism, experience or talent.

Part of speech: noun

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

Example sentence: I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.

Amateurish

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Suggesting or reflecting the efforts of an amateur; not seeming professional or polished.

We hope you now know whether to use Amateur or Amateurish in your sentence.

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