Word Meanings - PROFESSIONAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Of or pertaining to a profession, or calling; conforming to the rules or standards of a profession; following a profession; as, professional knowledge; professional conduct. "Pride, not personal, but professional." Macaulay. "A professional

Additional info about word: PROFESSIONAL

1. Of or pertaining to a profession, or calling; conforming to the rules or standards of a profession; following a profession; as, professional knowledge; professional conduct. "Pride, not personal, but professional." Macaulay. "A professional sneerer." De Quincey. 2. Engaged in by professionals; as, a professional race; -- opposed to amateur.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROFESSIONAL)

• Official
• Administrative
• authoritative
• negotiative
• functional
• professional

Related words: (words related to PROFESSIONAL)

• OFFICIALISM
  The state of being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism. Officialism may often drift into blunders. Smiles.
• OFFICIALTY
  The charge, office, court, or jurisdiction of an official. Ayliffe.
• PROFESSIONALISM
  The following of a profession, sport, etc., as an occupation; - - opposed to Ant: amateurism.
• ADMINISTRATIVE
  Pertaining to administration; administering; executive; as, an administrative body, ability, or energy. -- Ad*min"is*tra`tive*ly, adv.
• AUTHORITATIVE
  1. Having, or proceeding from, due authority; entitled to obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding. The sacred functions of authoritative teaching. Barrow. 2. Having an air of authority; positive; dictatorial; peremptory; as, an
• FUNCTIONAL
  Pertaining to the function of an organ or part, or to the functions in general. Functional disease , a disease of which the symptoms cannot be referred to any appreciable lesion or change of structure; the derangement of an organ arising from a
• OFFICIALLY
  By the proper officer; by virtue of the proper authority; in pursuance of the special powers vested in an officer or office; as, accounts or reports officially vertified or rendered; letters officially communicated; persons officially notified.
• OFFICIAL
  Approved by authority; sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; as, an official drug or preparation. Cf. Officinal. 4. Discharging an office or function. The stomach and other parts official unto nutrition. Sir T. Browne.
• PROFESSIONAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a profession, or calling; conforming to the rules or standards of a profession; following a profession; as, professional knowledge; professional conduct. "Pride, not personal, but professional." Macaulay. "A professional
• FUNCTIONALIZE
  To assign to some function or office.
• PROFESSIONALIST
  professional person.
• OFFICIALITY
  See OFFICIALTY
• PROFESSIONALLY
  In a professional manner or capacity; by profession or calling; in the exercise of one's profession; one employed professionally.
• FUNCTIONALLY
  In a functional manner; as regards normal or appropriate activity. The organ is said to be functionally disordered. Lawrence.
• INOFFICIALLY
  Without the usual forms, or not in the official character.
• NONPROFESSIONAL
  Not belonging to a profession; not done by, or proceeding from, professional men; contrary to professional usage.
• INAUTHORITATIVE
  Without authority; not authoritative.
• EXTRA-OFFICIAL
  Not prescribed by official duty.
• INOFFICIAL
  Not official; not having official sanction or authoriy; not according to the forms or ceremony of official business; as, inofficial intelligence. Pinckney and Marshall would not make inofficial visits to discuss official business. Pickering. Syn.
• EX-OFFICIAL
  Proceeding from office or authority.
• EXTRAPROFESSIONAL
  Foreign to a profession; not within the ordinary limits of professional duty or business.
• SEMIOFFICIAL
  Half official; having some official authority or importance; as, a semiofficial statement. -- Sem`i*of*fi"cial*ly, adv.