professedly

1. 1.

   with pretense or intention to deceive

   “is only professedly poor”
2. 2.

   by open declaration

   “their policy has been avowedly Marxist”

   “Susan Smith was professedly guilty of the murders”

   Synonymsavowedly

Questions about professedly

What does professedly mean?

professedly means "with pretense or intention to deceive". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in professedly?

professedly has 4 syllables: pro-fes-sed-ly. The stress falls on "fes".

What is another word for professedly?

Close synonyms include avowedly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is professedly a common word?

professedly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.