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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

openly claimed or declared to be true, often when actually false;

e.g. They were impressed by her professed love for the art form, even though she secretly found it boring.

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Similar Words

Accomplished

Ace

Adept

Affected

Alleged

Avowed

Complete

Consummate

Crack

Crackerjack

Educated

Experienced

Expert

Faked

Feigned

Good

Great

Guaranteed

Master

Masterful

Masterly

Multiskilled

Practiced

Proficient

Pronounced

Purported

Simulated

Skilled

Skillful

Sure-handed

Versed

Veteran

Virtuoso

Well-rounded

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Opposite Words

Abandoned

Artless

Awkward

Backstage

Behind-the-scenes

Challenged

Closeted

Clumsy

Confidential

Conspiratorial

Crude

Esoteric

Ham-fisted

Ham-handed

Heavy-handed

Hush-hush

Ignorant

Incapable

Incompetent

Ineffective

Ineffectual

Inefficient

Inept

Inside

Intimate

Neglected

Nonpublic

Off-screen

Offstage

Primitive

Private

Privy

Rough

Rude

Secret

The

Unable

Unadvertised

Unannounced

Understated

Undisclosed

Unfit

Unfitted

Ungifted

Unmentioned

Unpolished

Unqualified

Unsaid

Unschooled

Unseasoned

Untalented

Untaught

Untested

Untrained

Untried

Untutored

Weak

Withdrawn

Would-be

talentless

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Related Words

Able

Adroit

Advanced

All-around

All-round

Apparent

Assumed

Assured

Broadcast

Capable

Clever

Competent

Concealed

Confirmed

Deft

Dexterous

Effective

Effectual

Efficient

Employable

Evident

Fit

Fitted

Forged

Gifted

Habile

Handy

Justified

Knowledgeable

Long-term

Masked

Multiskilled

Multitalented

Old

Ostensible

Ostensive

Plugged

Polished

Pronounced

Putative

Qualified

Refined

Reputed

Said

Seeming

Slick

Stressed

Supposed

Sure-handed

Well-rounded

Workmanlike

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