[syn: master, professional]
ADJECTIVE (5)
1. engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or means of livelihood;
- Example: "the professional man or woman possesses distinctive qualifications"
- Example: "began her professional career after the Olympics"
- Example: "professional theater"
- Example: "professional football"
- Example: "a professional cook"
- Example: "professional actors and athletes"
2. of or relating to or suitable as a profession;
- Example: "professional organizations"
- Example: "a professional field such as law"
3. characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession;
- Example: "professional conduct"
- Example: "professional ethics"
- Example: "a thoroughly professional performance"
4. of or relating to a profession;
- Example: "we need professional advice"
- Example: "professional training"
- Example: "professional equipment for his new office"
5. engaged in by members of a profession;
- Example: "professional occupations include medicine and the law and teaching"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Professional \Pro*fes"sion*al\, n.
A person who prosecutes anything professionally, or for a
livelihood, and not in the character of an amateur; a
professional worker.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Professional \Pro*fes"sion*al\, a.
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.
[1913 Webster]
2. Engaged in by professionals; as, a professional race; --
opposed to amateur.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
professional
adj 1: 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" [ant:
nonprofessional]
2: of or relating to or suitable as a profession; "professional
organizations"; "a professional field such as law"
3: characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in
a profession; "professional conduct"; "professional ethics";
"a thoroughly professional performance" [ant:
unprofessional]
4: of or relating to a profession; "we need professional
advice"; "professional training"; "professional equipment for
his new office"
5: engaged in by members of a profession; "professional
occupations include medicine and the law and teaching"
n 1: a person engaged in one of the learned professions [syn:
professional, professional person]
2: an athlete who plays for pay [syn: professional, pro]
[ant: amateur]
3: an authority qualified to teach apprentices [syn: master,
professional]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
136 Moby Thesaurus words for "professional":
Admirable Crichton, Daedalian, able, academic, accomplished, adept,
adroit, apt, artisan, artist, artiste, artistic, at concert pitch,
attache, authoritative, authority, bravura, brilliant,
businesslike, career, clean, clever, coached, competent,
connaisseur, connoisseur, conscientious, consultant, conversant,
coordinated, cordon bleu, crack, crack shot, crackerjack,
craftsman, cross-disciplinary, cunning, cute, daedal, dead shot,
deft, dexterous, dextrous, diplomat, diplomatic, diplomatist,
educated, efficient, elder statesman, excellent, experienced,
experienced hand, expert, expert consultant, fancy, finished,
functional, gifted, good, goodish, gownsman, graceful, graduate,
graduate-professional, handy, handy man, industrial, ingenious,
initiate, initiated, interdisciplinary, journeyman, knowledgeable,
licensed, maestro, magisterial, marksman, master, masterful,
masterly, maven, neat, no mean, no slouch, official, old pro,
past master, pedagogical, polished, politic, politician,
postgraduate, practiced, prepared, primed, pro, professor,
proficient, prompt, qualified, quick, quite some, ready,
resourceful, savant, scholarly, scholastic, schoolish, seasoned,
seasoned professional, shark, sharp, skilled, skillful, slick,
some, specialist, statesman, statesmanlike, stylish, tactful,
talented, technical, technical adviser, technician, the compleat,
the complete, thorough, trained, veteran, virtuoso, vocational,
well-done, whiz, wizard, workmanlike