amateur vs bush league

amateur

adj
  • Created, done, or populated by amateurs or non-professionals. 

  • Showing a lack of professionalism, experience or talent. 

  • Non-professional. 

noun
  • Someone who is unqualified or insufficiently skillful. 

  • A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, science, or art (such as music or painting), especially one who cultivates any study, interest, taste, or attachment without engaging in it professionally. 

bush league

adj
  • Amateurish, unprofessional, unpolished, juvenile. 

  • Of inferior quality. 

noun
  • A professional sports association at the lower levels of minor league organization. 

  • A low-ranking or inferior level among groups, professions, organizations, etc. 

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