professionally
/pɹəfˈɛʃənəli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.76 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
As a professional; for one's paid career.
adv
In a professional manner.
Example Sentences
- "Steve Davis plays snooker professionally."
- "You handled that customer's complaint very professionally."
- "There is no precredit compassion expressed in “Side Street”: In place of Ray’s protective, implied narrator there is the professionally gruff voice of Paul Kelly, an actor who specialized in coldly professional New York City police detectives."
- "He said gardaí had responded professionally to “thuggish violence” in the area and those arrested would be “charged, named and dealt with relentlessly” by the criminal justice system."
Etymology
Etymology tree English professional Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English professionally From professional + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more professionally (comparative)
most professionally (superlative)