Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

professed

/pɹəˈfɛst/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.12 in modern English

Syllables: pro-fessed
IPA: /pɹəˈfɛst/

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Openly declared or acknowledged.

adj

Professing to be qualified.

adj

Admitted to a religious order.

verb

simple past and past participle of profess

Example Sentences

"His professed religion was Catholicism."
"She is a professed expert in mechanics."
"[…] flowers, which, if not identical with our violets, sufficiently correspond to them for the purposes of readers who are not professed botanists."
"The rule of the Perpetual Adoration is so strict that it horrifies; novices hold back, and the order is not recruited. In 1845 a few lay sisters were still found here and there, but no professed nuns."

Inflected Forms

more professed (comparative) most professed (superlative) profest (alternative, archaic)

Derived Forms

nonprofessed professedly unprofessed

Phrases

self-professed

Synonyms

avowed

Rhymes With

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Questions

How do you pronounce professed?: The recorded pronunciation is /pɹəˈfɛst/.
What does professed mean?: Openly declared or acknowledged.

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