The phrase "absolute amateur" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is completely inexperienced or unskilled in a particular activity or field.
Example: "Despite his enthusiasm for painting, he was still an absolute amateur, struggling to mix colors properly."
Alternatives: "total novice" or "complete beginner".
Many of the masterpieces of the postwar Italian Neorealist movement relied on absolute amateurs, who were frequently picked up off the streets by the casting director.
Instead of getting hung up on those complicated details about bacteria and microbes and such, our staff of absolute amateurs is eager to tackle the problem of food safety with new approaches.
Rank amateurs and charlatans.
Baseball's absolute unpredictability makes amateurs of us all, and after the Royals' wholly unexpected 10 0 shellacking of the Giants in last night's Game Six we can all get ready for the finale tonight with cheerful idiocy.
Goode, 26, would have been an absolute star in the amateur era when languid natural sportsmen – he played for Ipswich Town's academy, played county tennis and is the nephew of the Olympic badminton medallist Jo Goode – had a bit more space in which to operate.
Nevertheless, it is amateur sports where, in absolute sense, the injury burden is highest through high participation numbers.
Finally an absolute word of reassurance to the crossword amateur: A is most often indicated in a cryptic clue by, well, "a".
He was a specialist in low-temperature physics who for many years held the record for having created the lowest temperature ever achieved — a millionth of a degree above absolute zero — and who was also a keen amateur cook.
Only books from The New Yorker library, so no absolute rarities like William Henry Fox Talbot's "The Pencil of Nature," and no amateur interlopers like anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, whose snaps from "Saudades do Brasil" are the best pictures of human beings.
Based on range of recent, popular, recipe books promoting the concept of '30 minute meals' to home, amateur cooks (Lawson, 2013; Oliver, 2010; Pascal, 2012; Slater, 2006), it was assumed that it takes an absolute minimum of 30 minutes to prepare a main meal and longest continuous time spent cooking was dichotomised into spending at least 30 continuous minutes cooking or not.
