Antonyms for profess
prəˈfɛspro·fess

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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 something one is ready to justify, maintain, or defend. A man acknowledges another's claim or his own promise; he admits an opponent's advantage or his own error; he declares either what he has seen or experienced or what he has received from another; he avers what he is sure of from his own knowledge or consciousness; he gives his assurance as the voucher for what he avouches; he avows openly a belief or intention that he has silently held. Avow and avouch take a direct object; aver is followed by a conjunction: a man avows his faith, avouches a deed, avers that he was present. Avow has usually a good sense; what a person avows he at least does not treat as blameworthy, criminal, or shameful; if he did, he would be said to confess it; yet there is always the suggestion that some will be ready to challenge or censure what one avows; as, the clergyman avowed his dissent from the doctrine of his church. Own applies to all things, good or bad, great or small, which one takes as his own. Compare CONFESS; STATE.

   Antonyms:
   contradict, deny, disavow, disclaim, disown, ignore, repudiate

   Synonyms:
   admit, aver, avouch, avow, confess, declare, knowledge, own, proclaim, protest, testify, witness

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1. profess

   Antonyms:
   conceal, suppress, disown, disavow, repudiate, renounce, abjure

   Synonyms:
   declare, avow, acknowledge, own, confess, pretend, proclaim, lay claim to

Matched Categories

1. • Accept
   • Claim
   • Declare
   • Vow

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1. professverb

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

   "She professes organic chemistry"

   Synonyms:
   confess, concede, pretend

2. professverb

   confess one's faith in, or allegiance to

   "The terrorists professed allegiance to their country"; "he professes to be a Communist"

   Synonyms:
   confess, concede, pretend

3. concede, profess, confessverb

   admit (to a wrongdoing)

   "She confessed that she had taken the money"

   Synonyms:
   yield, cede, confess, pretend, grant, concede, fink, squeal

4. professverb

   state freely

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

   Synonyms:
   confess, concede, pretend

5. professverb

   receive into a religious order or congregation

   Synonyms:
   confess, concede, pretend

6. professverb

   take vows, as in religious order

   "she professed herself as a nun"

   Synonyms:
   confess, concede, pretend

7. profess, pretendverb

   state insincerely

   "He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt"; "She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber"; "She pretends to be an expert on wine"

   Synonyms:
   act, make, feign, confess, affect, pretend, dissemble, hazard, concede, make believe, sham, venture, guess

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1. professverb

   Synonyms:
   acknowledge, avow, admit, claim, pretend

How to use profess in a sentence?

1. AMYNE E. QASEM:

   taking risks is the religion I profess after Islam

2. Frederick Douglass:

   Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.

3. Unknown:

   Present your religion to a little child, set him in the midst of those who profess it. If it frightens him, and freezes the smiles on his lips, then whatever sort of religion it is, it is not Christianity.

4. John Quincy Adams:

   All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

5. Elizer Darris:

   The principles that we profess – they are enshrined within our mission statement and bylaws, but we’re more than that. … These are our neighbors, our cousins – we see each other in a grocery store. So, it was bigger than that. And we decided that we needed to communicate differently.

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