| prof | (noun) someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university | Synonyms: professor |
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| profanation | (noun) blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character | Synonyms: blasphemy, desecration, sacrilege |
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| (noun) degradation of something worthy of respect; cheapening | - |
| profanatory | (adjective) profaning or tending to desecrate | - |
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| profane | (adjective) not concerned with or devoted to religion | Synonyms: secular |
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| (adjective) characterized by profanity or cursing | Synonyms: blasphemous, blue |
| (adjective) grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred | Synonyms: blasphemous, sacrilegious |
| (adjective) not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled | Synonyms: unconsecrated, unsanctified |
| (verb) violate the sacred character of a place or language | Synonyms: desecrate, outrage, violate |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, subvert, vitiate |
| profaned | (adjective) treated irreverently or sacrilegiously | Synonyms: violated |
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| profanely | (adverb) in an irreverent or profane manner | - |
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| (adverb) with curses | - |
| profaneness | (noun) unholiness by virtue of being profane | Synonyms: unsanctification |
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| (noun) an attitude of irreverence or contempt for a divinity | - |
| profanity | (noun) vulgar or irreverent speech or action | - |
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| profess | (verb) practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about | - |
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| (verb) take vows, as in religious order | - |
| (verb) admit (to a wrongdoing) | Synonyms: concede, confess |
| (verb) confess one's faith in, or allegiance to | - |
| (verb) state insincerely | Synonyms: pretend |
| (verb) receive into a religious order or congregation | - |
| (verb) state freely | - |
| professed | (adjective) openly declared as such | Synonyms: avowed |
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| (adjective) professing to be qualified | - |
| (adjective) claimed with intent to deceive | - |
| professedly | (adverb) with pretense or intention to deceive | - |
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| (adverb) by open declaration | Synonyms: avowedly |
| professing | (noun) an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion | Synonyms: profession |
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| profession | (noun) an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences) | - |
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| (noun) an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion | Synonyms: professing |
| (noun) affirmation of acceptance of some religion or faith | - |
| (noun) the body of people in a learned occupation | - |
| professional | (adjective) engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or means of livelihood | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to a profession | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or suitable as a profession | - |
| (adjective) engaged in by members of a profession | - |
| (noun) a person engaged in one of the learned professions | Synonyms: professional person |
| (noun) an authority qualified to teach apprentices | Synonyms: master |
| (noun) an athlete who plays for pay | Synonyms: pro |
| professionalisation | (noun) the social process whereby people come to engage in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood | Synonyms: professionalization |
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| professionalise | (verb) make professional or give a professional character to | Synonyms: professionalize |
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| (verb) become professional or proceed in a professional manner or in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood | Synonyms: professionalize |
| professionalism | (noun) the expertness characteristic of a professional person | - |
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| professionalization | (noun) the social process whereby people come to engage in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood | Synonyms: professionalisation |
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| professionalize | (verb) make professional or give a professional character to | Synonyms: professionalise |
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| (verb) become professional or proceed in a professional manner or in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood | Synonyms: professionalise |
| professionally | (adverb) in a professional manner | - |
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| professor | (noun) someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university | Synonyms: prof |
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| professorial | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of professors | - |
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| professorially | (adverb) in a professorial manner | - |
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| professorship | (noun) the position of professor | Synonyms: chair |
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| proffer | (noun) a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: proposition, suggestion |
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| (verb) present for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: offer |
| proficiency | (noun) the quality of having great facility and competence | - |
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| (noun) skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity | Synonyms: technique |
| proficient | (adjective) of or relating to technique or proficiency in a practical skill | Synonyms: technical |
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| (adjective) having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude | Synonyms: adept, expert, good, practiced, skilful, skillful |
| proficiently | (adverb) in a proficient manner | - |
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| profile | (noun) biographical sketch | - |
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| (noun) an analysis (often in graphical form) representing the extent to which something exhibits various characteristics | - |
| (noun) a vertical section of the Earth's crust showing the different horizons or layers | - |
| (noun) an outline of something (especially a human face as seen from one side) | - |
| (noun) degree of exposure to public notice | Synonyms: visibility |
| (verb) represent in profile, by drawing or painting | - |
| (verb) write about | - |
| profiling | (noun) recording a person's behavior and analyzing psychological characteristics in order to predict or assess their ability in a certain sphere or to identify a particular group of people | - |
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| profit | (noun) the advantageous quality of being beneficial | Synonyms: gain |
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| (noun) the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) | Synonyms: earnings, lucre, net, net income, net profit, profits |
| (verb) make a profit; gain money or materially | Synonyms: turn a profit |
| (verb) derive a benefit from | Synonyms: benefit, gain |
| profitability | (noun) the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit | Synonyms: gainfulness, lucrativeness, profitableness |
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| profitable | (adjective) yielding material gain or profit | - |
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| profitableness | (noun) the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit | Synonyms: gainfulness, lucrativeness, profitability |
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| (noun) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome | Synonyms: advantageousness, favorableness, favourableness, positiveness, positivity |
| profitably | (adverb) in a productive way | Synonyms: fruitfully, productively |
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| profiteer | (noun) someone who makes excessive profit (especially on goods in short supply) | - |
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| (verb) make an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods | - |
| profiterole | (noun) a small hollow pastry that is typically filled with cream and covered with chocolate | - |
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| profitless | (adjective) without profit or reward | - |
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| profitlessly | (adverb) without gain or profit | Synonyms: gainlessly, unprofitably |
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| profits | (noun) the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) | Synonyms: earnings, lucre, net, net income, net profit, profit |
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| (noun) something won (especially money) | Synonyms: win, winnings |
| profligacy | (noun) dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure | Synonyms: dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness, looseness |
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| (noun) the trait of spending extravagantly | Synonyms: extravagance, prodigality |
| profligate | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, riotous |
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| (adjective) recklessly wasteful | Synonyms: extravagant, prodigal, spendthrift |
| (noun) a dissolute man in fashionable society | Synonyms: blood, rake, rakehell, rip, roue |
| (noun) a recklessly extravagant consumer | Synonyms: prodigal, squanderer |
| profligately | (adverb) in a dissolute way | Synonyms: dissolutely |
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| profound | (adjective) showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth | - |
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| (adjective) situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed | Synonyms: unfathomed, unplumbed, unsounded |
| (adjective) (of sleep) deep and complete | Synonyms: heavy, sound, wakeless |
| (adjective) of the greatest intensity; complete | - |
| (adjective) far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something | Synonyms: fundamental |
| (adjective) coming from deep within one | - |
| profoundly | (adverb) to a great depth psychologically or emotionally | Synonyms: deeply, intensely |
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| profoundness | (noun) the quality of being physically deep | Synonyms: deepness, profundity |
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| (noun) intellectual depth, penetrating knowledge, keen insight, etc; "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence" | Synonyms: profundity |
| (noun) the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas | Synonyms: astuteness, deepness, depth, profundity |
| (noun) wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound | Synonyms: abstruseness, abstrusity, profundity, reconditeness |
| (noun) extremeness of degree | - |
| profundity | (noun) the quality of being physically deep | Synonyms: deepness, profoundness |
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| (noun) intellectual depth, penetrating knowledge, keen insight, etc; "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence" | Synonyms: profoundness |
| (noun) the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas | Synonyms: astuteness, deepness, depth, profoundness |
| (noun) wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound | Synonyms: abstruseness, abstrusity, profoundness, reconditeness |
| profuse | (adjective) produced or growing in extreme abundance | Synonyms: exuberant, lush, luxuriant, riotous |
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| profusely | (adverb) in an abundant manner | Synonyms: abundantly, copiously, extravagantly |
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| profuseness | (noun) the property of being extremely abundant | Synonyms: cornucopia, profusion, richness |
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| profusion | (noun) the property of being extremely abundant | Synonyms: cornucopia, profuseness, richness |
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