English synonyms about - contact  

jump to corresponding sense entry

jump to corresponding sense entry

jump to corresponding sense entry

jump to corresponding sense entry

jump to corresponding sense entry

jump to corresponding sense entry

jump to corresponding sense entry

profess

verb

1 profess

Practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about.

2 profess

Confess one's faith in, or allegiance to.

3 profess

Admit (to a wrongdoing).

synonyms: concede, confess.

Dutch: bekennen

4 profess

State freely.

5 profess

Receive into a religious order or congregation.

6 profess

Take vows, as in religious order.

Dutch: professen

7 profess

State insincerely:
— He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt.

synonym: pretend.

Roget 535: assert; make an assertion etc. n.; have one's say; say, affirm, predicate, declare, state; protest, profess.    put forth, ... show more


Moby thesaurus: act, act a part, affect, affirm, allege, announce, annunciate, argue, assert, assever, asseverate, assume, aver, avouch, avow, bluff, claim, confess, confirm, contend ... show more.

Find more on profess elsewhere: etymology - rhymes - Wikipedia.

debug info: 0.0734