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professional
Synonyms and Antonyms of professional
- Many of the applicants lacked the professional experience the job required.
- She had always dreamed of becoming a professional boxer.
specialist (or specialistic), specialized, technical
accomplished, ace, adept, experienced, master, masterful, masterly, practiced (also practised), proficient, qualified, seasoned, skilled, skillful, veteran
- She found his presentation informative and his delivery quite professional.
- Employees were expected to act in a professional manner when dealing with potential customers.
dignified, distinguished, elevated, serious-minded
civil, courteous, gracious, genteel, mannerly, well-bred
befitting, correct, de rigueur, decent, decorous, nice, proper, respectable, seemly
artful, polished, refined, sophisticated
cool, earnest, grave, humorless, no-nonsense, po-faced [British], sedate, serious, severe, sober, sobersided, solemn, staid, uncomic, unsmiling, weighty
unbusinesslike, unprofessional
artless, undignified, unmannerly
antic, comic, comical, droll, farcical, funny, hilarious, hysterical (also hysteric), laughable, light, light-headed, ludicrous, ridiculous, riotous, risible, screaming, sidesplitting, uproarious
featherbrained, flighty, frivolous, goofy, harebrained, lighthearted, puerile, scatterbrained
absurd, asinine, balmy, brainless, cockeyed, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dotty, fatuous, foolish, half-witted, insane, jerky, kooky (also kookie), loony (also looney), lunatic, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, senseless, silly, unwise, wacky (also whacky), weak-minded, witless, zany
facetious, flip, flippant, humorous, jesting, jocular, joking, kittenish, ludic, playful
professional
Synonyms and Antonyms of professional
- If you want the job done right, you really should hire a professional.
consultant, hired gun, specialist
addict, aficionado (also afficionado), buff, devotee, enthusiast, fan
all-rounder [British], jack-of-all-trades, Renaissance man
ace, adept, artist, authority, cognoscente, connoisseur, crackerjack (also crackajack), dab [chiefly British], dab hand [chiefly British], expert, fiend, geek, guru, hand, hotshot, maestro, master, maven (also mavin), meister, past master, proficient, scholar, shark, sharp, virtuoso, whiz, wizard
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