amateur vs no-hoper

amateur

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. 

adj
  • Showing a lack of professionalism, experience or talent. 

  • Non-professional. 

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

no-hoper

noun
  • Someone or something that has no hope of success. 

How often have the words amateur and no-hoper occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )