Antonyms for dabbling

Grammar : Verb

Spell : dab-uhl

Phonetic Transcription : ˈdæb əl

take seriously

Definition of dabbling

Origin : 1550s, probably a frequentative of dab. Original meaning was "wet by splashing;" modern figurative sense of "do superficially" first recorded 1620s. Related: Dabbled; dabbling. An Ellen Dablewife is in the Lancashire Inquests from 1336.

verb play at; tinker

Example sentences :

She was not a little suspected of dabbling in other forbidden things.
Extract from : « The Golden Dog » by William Kirby

And instead of dabbling in religion for myself I put myself in its hands.
Extract from : « Natural Law in the Spiritual World » by Henry Drummond

That's rather hard on the rest of us who are dabbling in politics.
Extract from : « A Man of Two Countries » by Alice Harriman

Raymond must give up his dabbling, and set to work like a man.
Extract from : « The Boy Artist. » by F.M. S.

As a matter of fact, it was no foot at all he was dabbling, but only a maimed stump.
Extract from : « Stories of the Ships » by Lewis R. Freeman

Dabbling in sorcery is in some degree the province of the female Gypsy.
Extract from : « The Spirit Land » by Samuel B. (Samuel Bulfinch) Emmons

One story had it that "dabbling in magic" had lost him his position in the Church.
Extract from : « The Bright Messenger » by Algernon Blackwood

I knew just how they did feel inside while they were dabbling their toes in the water.
Extract from : « The Story of Opal » by Opal Whiteley

While I was dabbling my toes, my legs did have longings to go in wading, but I went not in.
Extract from : « The Story of Opal » by Opal Whiteley

And vowed they saw his ghost, which came from dabbling in psychology.
Extract from : « Mr. Punch on the Continong » by Various

Synonyms for dabbling

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