Synonyms for tyro
ˈtaɪ roʊty·ro

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1. tyro

   Etymologically, the amateur is one who loves, the connoisseur one who knows. In usage, the term amateur is applied to one who pursues any study or art simply from the love of it; the word carries a natural implication of superficialness, tho marked excellence is at times attained by amateurs. A connoisseur is supposed to be so thoroughly informed regarding any art or work as to be able to criticize or select intelligently and authoritatively; there are many incompetent critics, but there can not, in the true sense, be an incompetent connoisseur. The amateur practises to some extent that in regard to which he may not be well informed; the connoisseur is well informed in regard to that which he may not practise at all. A novice or tyro may be a professional; an amateur never is; the amateur may be skilled and experienced as the novice or tyro never is. Dilettante, which had originally the sense of amateur, has to some extent come to denote one who is superficial, pretentious, and affected, whether in theory or practise.

   Synonyms:
   amateur, connoisseur, critic, dilettante, novice

   Preposition:
   An amateur in art.

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1. tyro

   Synonyms:
   beginner, novice, neophyte

   Antonyms:
   professor, adept, expert, master

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1. novice, beginner, tyro, tiro, initiatenoun

   someone new to a field or activity

   Synonyms:
   savant, pundit, father, founding father, founder, learned person, initiate, novice, enlightened, novitiate, beginner, tiro

Matched Categories

1. • Unskilled Person

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1. tyronoun

   Synonyms:
   beginner, novice, learner

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1. tyronoun

   Synonyms:
   novice, neophyte, pupil, beginner

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1. Jerome K. Jerome:

   Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake. Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general air of scrupulous -- almost of pedantic -- veracity, that the experienced angler is seen.