A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; especially one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally. (noun)
Someone who is unqualified or insufficiently skillful. (noun)
Non-professional. (adjective)
Created, done, or populated by amateurs or non-professionals. (adjective)
Showing a lack of professionalism, experience or talent. (adjective)
Examples of word amateur
Then it dawned on me that the word "amateur" comes from the French word meaning "to love."
I totally agree with your etymological assessment of the term amateur, I will always be an amateur, never a professional. lichanos
But I don't think the term amateur is being used that way here.
Over the decades, the word amateur changed its meaning.
Over the decades, the word amateur changed from conveying a moral sensibility, into an economic one.