professionally
professionally adverb: as a professional; for one's paid career.
Adverb
professionally (comparative more professionally, superlative most professionally)
- As a professional; for one's paid career.
- Steve Davis plays snooker professionally.
- In a professional manner.
- 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.2007 July 31, Dave Kehr, “New DVDs”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021
Examples of professionally in a sentence
- He was a pretty good student, but never amounted to much professionally.
- They had a baby just as she was hitting her stride professionally.
- Although he was a gifted musician, he was a plumber by trade and never played music professionally.
Antonyms of professionally
Forms of professionally
| comparative | more professionally |
|---|---|
| superlative | most professionally |
Origin of professionally
From professional + -ly.
Words formed from professionally
Questions about professionally
- What does professionally mean?
- Professionally means as a professional; for one's paid career.
- What part of speech is professionally?
- Professionally is an adverb.
Words near professionally in the dictionary
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