PUTTERER Synonyms: 24 Similar and Opposite Words

putterer

noun

as in amateur

a person who regularly or occasionally engages in an activity as a pastime rather than as a profession her husband is an inveterate putterer, and their garage is full of half-finished projects he has worked on over the years

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Rather than enter the amateur draft, De Paula signed directly with the Dodgers as an international amateur for a bonus of just under $400,000.

— Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026
In Bird and Goldmark’s account (these collaborators are also married), the nihilistic, amoral, duplicitous, power-seeking Roy Marcus Cohn makes Niccolò Machiavelli seem like a rank amateur.

— Martin Filler, The New York Review of Books, 15 Sep. 2026

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