The opposite word of professional

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1. professional, professional personnoun

   a person engaged in one of the learned professions

   Antonyms:
   amateur, unpaid, amateurish, recreational, lay, blue-collar, inexpert, unskilled, unprofessional, nonprofessional

   Synonyms:
   professional person, master, pro

2. professional, pronoun

   an athlete who plays for pay

   Antonyms:
   amateur, nonprofessional, unpaid, blue-collar, unprofessional, unskilled, amateurish, recreational, lay, inexpert

   Synonyms:
   professional person, master, pro

3. master, professionaladjective

   an authority qualified to teach apprentices

   Antonyms:
   amateur, nonprofessional, amateurish, recreational, lay, unpaid, unprofessional, blue-collar, inexpert, unskilled

   Synonyms:
   master key, master copy, schoolmaster, original, passkey, maestro, superior, victor, master, overlord, passe-partout, sea captain, headmaster, captain, professional person, lord, pro, skipper

4. professionaladjective

   engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or means of livelihood

   «the professional man or woman possesses distinctive qualifications»; «began her professional career after the Olympics»; «professional theater»; «professional football»; «a professional cook»; «professional actors and athletes»

   Antonyms:
   amateur, unskilled, unpaid, blue-collar, inexpert, amateurish, unprofessional, recreational, nonprofessional, lay

5. professionaladjective

   of or relating to or suitable as a profession

   «professional organizations»; «a professional field such as law»

   Antonyms:
   amateur, unpaid, inexpert, lay, unskilled, unprofessional, recreational, blue-collar, amateurish, nonprofessional

6. professionaladjective

   characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession

   «professional conduct»; «professional ethics»; «a thoroughly professional performance»

   Antonyms:
   amateur, recreational, lay, blue-collar, unskilled, unprofessional, amateurish, nonprofessional, unpaid, inexpert

7. professionaladjective

   of or relating to a profession

   «we need professional advice»; «professional training»; «professional equipment for his new office»

   Antonyms:
   amateur, nonprofessional, amateurish, unpaid, unskilled, unprofessional, lay, inexpert, recreational, blue-collar

8. professionaladjective

   engaged in by members of a profession

   «professional occupations include medicine and the law and teaching»

   Antonyms:
   amateur, unpaid, blue-collar, recreational, amateurish, inexpert, unprofessional, lay, nonprofessional, unskilled

How to use professional in a sentence?

1. Jonas Baer-Hoffmann:

   It actually makes it harder, because you have more travel, less recovery etc., we have seen that travel is a substantial risk factor to any of the COVID protocols that professional sports have undertaken.

2. Alex Piquero:

   ( Professional athletes) want to play, just like we want to watch them play and the fact that we’re still watching sports in the middle of a worldwide pandemic is remarkable, but we’ve got to be careful because teams start losing games, players start falling out, this is what can move to shutting things down for a week or two, and that’s what leagues are trying to avoid.

3. James Pitaro:

   Pedro was an elite journalist at the highest level and his professional accomplishments are universally recognized, more importantly, Pedro was a kind, dear friend to us all.

4. Lisa Murkowski:

   I am going to give the benefit of the doubt to a woman who I believe has demonstrated throughout her professional career to be deeply, deeply committed to matters of justice.

5. Amer Maybe:

   A professional wasnt a proffesional before he started learning the proffesion.

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