professed
- adjective
- /prəˈfɛst/
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autoproclamado
- Her professed commitment to environmentalism is evident in her daily habits.
Bernie Sanders is a self professed socialist.
- Bernie Sanders is a self professed socialist.
- Your, in other words, your professed values and your lived values are not the same.
Examples
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We should think about the possibility of living up to our own professed ideals, which means applying them to ourselves.
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Yeah, when will the Prime Minister demonstrate some of her professed concern about burning injustices and halt the roll out of Universal Credit?
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Your, in other words, your professed values and your lived values are not the same.
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Your in other words, your professed values and your lived values are not the same.
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I I'm a self professed big fan of Microsoft.
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But this belies our professed commitments to a life of the mind.
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Bernie Sanders is a self professed socialist.
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Now jump all the way to David Hume, whom you mentioned recently, who was in fact A self professed skeptic.
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Do you think maybe you're a self professed loner to protect yourself from rejection and hurt of other people?
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He is a self-baptized, self-professed genius in the world of technology.
Synonyms
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6.5
Said in public and not hidden
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Seeming to be true but maybe not real
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Said to be true or to have happened but not proved
Thought to be true but often doubted
Said to be true without proof
Words or actions make it clear
Antonyms
How Assertive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Professed goes back to an old Latin idea made of pro- 'forth' and fess 'to say or admit', the same root you see in confess. So a professed belief or feeling is something someone has publicly 'stated' or 'claimed', and it may not be true.