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amateur
  • n  someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime
  • n  an athlete who does not play for pay
  • s  engaged in as a pastime
    an amateur painter
    gained valuable experience in amateur theatricals
  • s  lacking professional skill or expertise
    a very amateurish job
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amateurish
  • s  lacking professional skill or expertise
    a very amateurish job
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amatory
  • s  expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance
    her amatory affairs
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amazed
  • v  affect with wonder
  • v  be a mystery or bewildering to
  • s  filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock
    an amazed audience gave the magician a standing ovation
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amazing
  • v  affect with wonder
  • v  be a mystery or bewildering to
  • s  surprising greatly
    she does an amazing amount of work
  • s  inspiring awe or admiration or wonder
    New York is an amazing city
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ambagious
  • s  roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; (`ambagious' is archaic)
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ambassadorial
  • a  of or relating to or characteristic of ambassadors
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amber
  • n  a deep yellow color
    an amber light illuminated the room
  • n  a hard yellowish to brownish translucent fossil resin; used for jewelry
  • s  of a medium to dark brownish yellow color
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ambidextrous
  • a  equally skillful with each hand
    an ambidextrous surgeon
  • s  marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another
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ambient
  • s  completely enveloping
    the ambient air
    ambient sound
    the ambient temperature
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ambiguous
  • a  open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead
    the polling had a complex and equivocal (or ambiguous) message for potential female candidates
  • a  having more than one possible meaning
    ambiguous words
    frustrated by ambiguous instructions, the parents were unable to assemble the toy
  • s  having no intrinsic or objective meaning; not organized in conventional patterns
    an ambiguous situation with no frame of reference
    ambiguous inkblots
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