Synonyms for professional
prəˈfɛʃ ə nlpro·fes·sion·al

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1. professional, professional personnoun

   a person engaged in one of the learned professions

   Synonyms:
   professional person, master, pro

   Antonyms:
   amateur, unpaid, amateurish, recreational, lay, blue-collar, inexpert, unskilled, unprofessional, nonprofessional

2. professional, pronoun

   an athlete who plays for pay

   Synonyms:
   professional person, master, pro

   Antonyms:
   amateur, nonprofessional, unpaid, blue-collar, unprofessional, unskilled, amateurish, recreational, lay, inexpert

3. master, professionaladjective

   an authority qualified to teach apprentices

   Synonyms:
   master key, master copy, schoolmaster, original, passkey, maestro, superior, victor, master, overlord, passe-partout, sea captain, headmaster, captain, professional person, lord, pro, skipper

   Antonyms:
   amateur, nonprofessional, amateurish, recreational, lay, unpaid, unprofessional, blue-collar, inexpert, unskilled

4. professionaladjective

   engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or means of livelihood

   "the professional man or woman possesses distinctive qualifications"; "began her professional career after the Olympics"; "professional theater"; "professional football"; "a professional cook"; "professional actors and athletes"

   Antonyms:
   amateur, unskilled, unpaid, blue-collar, inexpert, amateurish, unprofessional, recreational, nonprofessional, lay

5. professionaladjective

   of or relating to or suitable as a profession

   "professional organizations"; "a professional field such as law"

   Antonyms:
   amateur, unpaid, inexpert, lay, unskilled, unprofessional, recreational, blue-collar, amateurish, nonprofessional

6. professionaladjective

   characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession

   "professional conduct"; "professional ethics"; "a thoroughly professional performance"

   Antonyms:
   amateur, recreational, lay, blue-collar, unskilled, unprofessional, amateurish, nonprofessional, unpaid, inexpert

7. professionaladjective

   of or relating to a profession

   "we need professional advice"; "professional training"; "professional equipment for his new office"

   Antonyms:
   amateur, nonprofessional, amateurish, unpaid, unskilled, unprofessional, lay, inexpert, recreational, blue-collar

8. professionaladjective

   engaged in by members of a profession

   "professional occupations include medicine and the law and teaching"

   Antonyms:
   amateur, unpaid, blue-collar, recreational, amateurish, inexpert, unprofessional, lay, nonprofessional, unskilled

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1. List of paraphrases for "professional":

   vocational, professionals, occupational, career, profession, professionalism, professionnel, professionnelle, professions, practitioners, professionnels, profesional, professionally, specialized, professionnelles, work-related, administrators, specialist, practitioner, professional-level, profissional, pro, job, administrator, job-related, work, majors, professionel, expert, business, technical

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1. Robin Soderling:

   Thank you so much for all your kind words. So sad I won't play professional tennis again, but reading all your msgs makes me feel a lot better.

2. James Pitaro:

   Pedro was an elite journalist at the highest level and his professional accomplishments are universally recognized, more importantly, Pedro was a kind, dear friend to us all.

3. Bill Polian:

   It's just a question of a person who's lived a great life, great professional life, contributed to every community he's ever been in, including the University of Tennessee, where a street is named after him, and it's just an attempt to gain notoriety for others by smearing a good person.

4. Jamal Khashoggi:

   I really feel like golf is a force of good in the world – I just try to be a great role model to kids. We are not politicians. I know you guys hate that expression, but we are really not, unfortunately. We are professional golfers, if Saudi Arabia wanted to use the game of golf as a way for them to get to where they want to be and they have the resources to accelerate that experience, I think we are proud to help them on that journey using the game of golf and the abilities that we have to help grow the sport and take them to where they want to be.

5. Bailey Davis:

   You walk by a guy and you’re afraid you’re going to get touched, every girl dreads going out there before the games. We didn’t feel very important because we were literally thrown into the mix with the fans. Who would throw professional cheerleaders, walking around with cash, out with drunk fans?