professional

  • (a) engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or means of livelihood
    • the professional man or woman possesses distinctive qualifications
    • began her professional career after the Olympics
    • professional theater
    • professional football
    • a professional cook
    • professional actors and athletes
  • (a) of or relating to or suitable as a profession
    • professional organizations
    • a professional field such as law
  • (a) characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession
    • professional conduct
    • professional ethics
    • a thoroughly professional performance
  • (a) of or relating to a profession
    • we need professional advice
    • professional training
    • professional equipment for his new office
  • (s) engaged in by members of a profession
    • professional occupations include medicine and the law and teaching

Nouns

  • (n) a person engaged in one of the learned professions professional person,
  • (n) an athlete who plays for pay pro,
  • (n) an authority qualified to teach apprentices master,

Synonyms

professional person pro master

Antonyms

nonprofessional amateur unprofessional

Words of close approximity

professional association professional baseball professional basketball professional boxing professional dancer professional football professional golf professional golfer professionalisation professionalise professionalism professionalization professionalize professional life professionally professional organisation professional organization professional person professional relation professional tennis professional tennis player professional wrestling