Local English word record

professed

adjective · 3 senses

openly declared as such

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Examples

  • an avowed enemy
  • her professed love of everything about that country
  • McKinley was assassinated by a professed anarchist

Word relationships

Synonyms

avowed(a), professed(a)

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Princeton WordNet 3.0