amateurish
amateurish
Definition
ama·teur·ish (am′ə c̸ho̵or′is̸h, am′ə tʉr′-)
adjective
like an amateur; inexpert; unskillful
am′a·teur′·ishly adverb
am′a·teur′·ish·ness noun
amateurish
Synonyms
amateurish
Usage Examples
Preposition: in
- extreme: The zombies look frankly poor and all pretty much look the same, and any bits of gore look amateurish in the extreme.
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- look: At some stage a complete re-design will need to be done as I feel that it still looks a bit amateurish.
Used with adjective complement
- look: The bezel edging around pictures was nice and small, but the control panel skin looked amateurish.
- seem: Although this was quite advanced for its day, it seems extremely amateurish now.
- feel: The site also feels amateurish, due to the somewhat crude design and various spelling mistakes.
- sound: The result is a 5.1 mix that sounds amateurish at best.
Modifying Another Word
- plain: Camera shake looks plain amateurish, and we all know the ' professional look ' is the holy grail of any aspiring amateur.
- rather: Wet Dream ( my first solo album released in 1978 ) was rather amateurish.
- very: The touching up of the auctioneers ' image is a very amateurish thing.
- so: And then the response they get is " it looks so amateurish.
- slightly: Mr Singleton, 11 Jul 05 This seemed like a slightly amateurish service which is cheaper than the standard airport parking.
- pretty: My bet is that this is a pretty amateurish effort to cause panic.
Modifies a noun
- feel: The voice acting isn't horrible, but it has an amateurish feel.
- way: You can't behave in an amateurish way at a club like Swansea.
- effort: My bet is that this is a pretty amateurish effort to cause panic.
- hesitation: There must be no download free game totally ware faltering now, no bungling, no mistakes, no amateurish hesitation.
- attempt: I am not a graphic designer, so I don't want to make an amateurish attempt and ruin your writing.
- performance: Bearing this in mind, Legge and Voce have created a sloppy and amateurish impro performance.
