professing
verbHow many syllables in professing?
There are 3 syllables in the word professing.How to pronounce professing:
Definition of professing:
- professing (verb):
- to claim (something as true), often falsely
- to receive formally into a religious community following a novitiate by acceptance of the required vows
Synonyms for professing:
affirmation
affirmative
assertion
asseveration
averment
avowal
profession
reaffirmation
reassertion
Antonyms for professing:
arguing
arguing with
brushing aside
challenging
combating
combatting
concealing
confuting
contesting
contradicting
contravening
controverting
countering
crossing
debunking
declaring untrue
denying
disaffirming
disagreeing
disagreeing with
disallowing
disavowing
disclaiming
disconfirming
discrediting
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- procity
- procedures
- probeer
- privatize
- prisoner
- primroses
- primary
- prickly pear
- prickliest
- prevalence
- prettier
- prescious
- premises
- premio
- prejudiced
- preheated
- prednisone
- predators
- precedent
- precautions
- preachers
- prayerful
- practicing
- practices
- potency
- potatoes
- portsoken
- portmanteau
- porphyry
- poppadoms
- ponytail
- pondering
- polymer
- polluted
- polito
- politic
- poaceae
- plundering
- plenary
- pleistocene
- pleadingly
- plantations
- placenta
- pitocin
- pirouette
- pirogen
- piracy
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- pinetum
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