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UNPROFESSIONAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unprofessional mean?
• UNPROFESSIONAL (adjective)
The adjective UNPROFESSIONAL has 1 sense:
1. not characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession
Familiarity information: UNPROFESSIONAL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession
Context example:
unprofessional repairs
Similar:
amateur; amateurish; inexpert; unskilled (lacking professional skill or expertise)
Antonym:
professional (characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession)
Context examples
Even Sophy's being here, is unprofessional.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
But then, said Traddles, our domestic arrangements are, to say the truth, quite unprofessional altogether, my dear Copperfield.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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