profess

profess is a 7-letter English word with 12 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make open declaration of, as of one's knowledge, belief, action, etc.; to avow or acknowledge; to confess publicly; to own or admit freely. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 12 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To make open declaration of, as of one's knowledge, belief, action, etc.; to avow or acknowledge; to confess publicly; to own or admit freely.
2. transitive verb. To set up a claim to; to make presence to; hence, to put on or present an appearance of.
3. transitive verb. To present to knowledge of, to proclaim one's self versed in; to make one's self a teacher or practitioner of, to set up as an authority respecting; to declare (one's self to be such); as, he professes surgery; to profess one's self a physician.
4. intransitive verb. To take a profession upon one's self by a public declaration; to confess.
5. intransitive verb. To declare friendship.
6. verb. state insincerely

   "He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt"

   "She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber"

   Synonyms: pretend

7. verb. confess one's faith in, or allegiance to

   "The terrorists professed allegiance to their country"

   "he professes to be a Communist"

8. verb. admit (to a wrongdoing)

   "She confessed that she had taken the money"

   Synonyms: concede, confess

9. verb. practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about

   "She professes organic chemistry"

10. verb. take vows, as in religious order

    "she professed herself as a nun"

11. verb. receive into a religious order or congregation
12. verb. state freely

    "The teacher professed that he was not generous when it came to giving good grades"

Synonyms

pretend, concede, confess

Common word forms

professed, professes, professing, professable

Words from these letters

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