Word.ws English Dictionary

professionless

professionless adjective: lacking a profession.

Adjective

professionless (not comparable)

  1. Lacking a profession.
    • He marries a woman, and his father casts him off penniless and professionless.1862, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret

Origin of professionless

From profession + -less.

Questions about professionless

What does professionless mean?
Professionless means lacking a profession.
What part of speech is professionless?
Professionless is an adjective.

Words near professionless in the dictionary

  1. professionists
  2. professionize
  3. professionized
  4. professionizes
  5. professionizing
  6. professionless
  7. professions
  8. professionym
  9. professly
  10. professor
  11. Professor Cube

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: professionless (page history and authors). 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: “professionless.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/professionless. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.