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Synonyms, Thesaurus & Antonyms of 'profess'

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1. (verb) profess
practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about
Synonyms: confess, concede, pretend

2. (verb) profess
confess one's faith in, or allegiance to
Synonyms: confess, concede, pretend

3. (verb) concede, profess, confess
admit (to a wrongdoing)
Synonyms: yield, cede, confess, pretend, grant, concede, profess, fink, squeal

4. (verb) profess
state freely
Synonyms: confess, concede, pretend

5. (verb) profess
receive into a religious order or congregation
Synonyms: confess, concede, pretend

6. (verb) profess
take vows, as in religious order
Synonyms: confess, concede, pretend

7. (verb) profess, pretend
state insincerely
Synonyms: act, make, feign, confess, affect, pretend, dissemble, hazard, concede, make believe, profess, sham, venture, guess

Synonyms, Thesaurus & Antonyms of 'profess'

English Synonyms and Antonyms

1. profess
Acknowledge, admit, and declare refer either to oneself or to others; all the other words refer only to one's own knowledge or action. To avow is to declare boldly and openly, commonly as som
Synonyms: avow, knowledge, aver, confess, own, profess, testify, admit, avouch, declare, proclaim, protest, witness
Antonyms: contradict, deny, disavow, disclaim, disown, ignore, repudiate

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