professed

Meaning

Adj

1. Openly declared or acknowledged.
2. Professing to be qualified.
3. Admitted to a religious order.

Verb

simple past and past participle of profess

profess

1. (transitive) To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order.
2. (reflexive) To declare oneself (to be something).
3. (ambitransitive) To declare; to assert, affirm.
4. (transitive) To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity.
5. (transitive) To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.).
6. (transitive) To work as a professor of; to teach.
7. (archaic, transitive) To claim to have knowledge or understanding of (a given area of interest, subject matter).

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Synonyms

avowed

declared

stated

alleged

ostensible

established

explicit

feigned

mock

overt

painted

patent

pretended

pseudo

public

purported

recognised

recognized

reported

reputed

self-confessed

so-called

supposed

trumped-up

would-be

acknowledged

call oneself

affected

asserted

canonic

canonical

Translations

açıklanmış

erklärte

dichiarato

openlijk

zogenaamd

manifesto

declarado

pretenso

professo

confesso

alenen itiraf edilmiş

iddia edilen

savlanan

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɹəˈfɛst/