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profiled

profiled is the simple past and past participle of profile.

Meaning of profile

Verb

profile (third-person singular simple present profiles, present participle profiling, simple past and past participle profiled)

  1. (transitive) To create a summary or collection of information about (a person, etc.).
    • The book The Men with the Pink Triangles, profiling the lives of gay prisoners in the German concentration camp.1984 April 7, Warren Blumenfeld, “Boston's Other Voice”, in Gay Community News, page 11
  2. To act based on such a summary, especially one that is a stereotype; to engage in profiling.
  3. (transitive) To draw in profile or outline.
  4. (transitive) To give a definite form by chiselling, milling, etc.
  5. (transitive) To measure the performance of various parts of (a program) so as to locate bottlenecks.
    • […] a complete and intuitive profiler that supports numerous types of profiling modes and profilable applications.2006, Dr. Dobb's Journal

See all 17 meanings of profile

Adjective

profiled (comparative more profiled, superlative most profiled)

  1. That has undergone profiling

Forms of profiled

comparativemore profiled
superlativemost profiled

Questions about profiled

What does profiled mean?
Profiled means that has undergone profiling.
What is profiled the simple past and past participle of?
Profiled is the simple past and past participle of profile.
What part of speech is profiled?
Profiled is an adjective.

Words near profiled in the dictionary

  1. profilable
  2. profilaggrin
  3. profilamentous
  4. profile
  5. profile picture
  6. profiled
  7. profilee
  8. profilees
  9. profiler
  10. profilers
  11. profiles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: profiled (page history and authors); profile (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.

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