Word.ws English Dictionary

practising

practising adjective: engaged in the practice of some activity or profession. Also the present participle and gerund of practise.

Adjective

practising (not comparable)

  1. Engaged in the practice of some activity or profession.
  2. Relating to the practice of law by a legal practitioner; specifically, relating to a legal practitioner's status of being currently certified to practise law.
    • You really should seek advice from a practising solicitor.

Noun

practising (plural practisings)

  1. The act of one who practises.

Also used as

practising is also the present participle and gerund of practise.

practising meaning in Malayalam

practising in Malayalam

പ്രാക്ടീസ് ചെയ്യുന്നു

Forms of practising

pluralpractisings

Origin of practising

From practise + -ing (suffix forming gerund nouns, and present participles of verbs).

Questions about practising

What does practising mean?
Practising means engaged in the practice of some activity or profession.
What is practising in Malayalam?
Practising in Malayalam is പ്രാക്ടീസ് ചെയ്യുന്നു. See Practising meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is practising?
Practising can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near practising in the dictionary

  1. practiser
  2. practisers
  3. practises
  4. practisest
  5. practiseth
  6. practising
  7. practisings
  8. practitioner
  9. practitioners
  10. practitionership
  11. practive

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: practising (page history and authors); practising (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “practising.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/practising. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.