professed
Syllables: pro·fessed/pɹəˈfɛst/
professed adjective: openly declared or acknowledged. Also the simple past and past participle of profess.
Adjective
professed (comparative more professed, superlative most professed)
- Openly declared or acknowledged.
- His professed religion was Catholicism.
- Professing to be qualified.
- 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.1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 8, page 128
- Admitted to a religious order.
- 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.1887, chapter XI, in Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall, transl., Les Misérables, volume II, Little, Brown, and Company, translation of original by Victor Hugo
Also used as
professed is also the simple past and past participle of profess.
Examples of professed in a sentence
- Having professed her belief in the remedy, she had little choice but to try it.
- They've professed themselves delighted with the results.
- They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.
Forms of professed
| comparative | more professed |
|---|---|
| superlative | most professed |
| alternative form (archaic) | profest |
Words formed from professed
Words that rhyme with professed
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- attest
- guest
- quest
- bequest
- distressed
- pest
- prest
- request
- revest
- west
- wrest
- zest
- contest
- depressed
- dressed
- gest
- impressed
- jest
- suggest
- acid test
- best
- celeste
- divest
- ingest
- molest
- North West
- northwest
- possessed
- pressed
- southwest
- -cest
- addressed
- behest
- compressed
- congest
- detest
- fest
- infest
- lest
- obsessed
- pretest
- processed
- repressed
- rest.
- stressed
- tressed
- unrest
- unstressed
Questions about professed
- What does professed mean?
- Professed means openly declared or acknowledged.
- What part of speech is professed?
- Professed is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce professed?
- Professed is pronounced /pɹəˈfɛst/.
Words near professed in the dictionary
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