professed

Verb

• practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about
• confess one's faith in, or allegiance to
  • "The terrorists professed allegiance to their country"
• admit (to a wrongdoing)
• state freely
  • "The teacher professed that he was not generous when it came to giving good grades"
• receive into a religious order or congregation
• take vows, as in religious order
  • "she professed herself as a nun"
• state insincerely
  • "He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt"
• simple past and past participle of profess

Adjective Satellite

• professing to be qualified
  • "a professed philosopher"
• claimed with intent to deceive
  • "his professed intentions"
• openly declared as such
  • "her professed love of everything about that country"
  • "McKinley was assassinated by a professed anarchist"

Adj

• Openly declared or acknowledged.
• Professing to be qualified.
• Admitted to a religious order.

Examples

• His professed religion was Catholicism.
• She is a professed expert in mechanics.

Synonyms

avowed, concede, confess, pretend, profess

Anagrams of professed