Unprofessional

Definition: Unprofessional

Unprofessional

Adjective

1. Not characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession; "described in unprofessional language so that high school students could understand it"; "was censured for unprofessional conduct"; "unprofessional repairs".

Date "unprofessional" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references)

Synonym: Unprofessional

Synonym: Inofficial. (additional references)

Antonym: professional (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Unprofessional

English words defined with "unprofessional": abide ♦ bear, brook ♦ endure ♦ put up ♦ stand, stomach, suffer, support ♦ tolerate. (references)

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Modern Usage: Unprofessional

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

Very unprofessional, Bill. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

This is the most unprofessional job I've ever had -- What is this? (The Wizard of Speed and Time; writing credit: Mike Jittlov)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Unprofessional

Domain	Title
Books	D.H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study (reference) Unladylike and Unprofessional (Academic Women and Academic Unions) (reference) Unprofessional Behavior: Confessions of a Public Librarian (reference) Unprofessional Essays (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Unprofessional

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Most of the maintenance and repair services (computer, plumbing, electrical, clothes, shoe, automobile, and many others) are usually performed by small, inefficient and unreliable shops and/or by individuals that don't guarantee their work. Frequently, a client has to go back to the shop several times before being satisfied with the maintenance/repair job. Repair services provided at home, like plumbing and electricity are extremely inefficient and unprofessional, done with inadequate materials, by individuals that generally have not had proper training. (references)
Human Rights	Barbados	The majority of complaints against the police allege unprofessional conduct and beating or assault. (references)
	Ghana	Two soldiers later were arrested and charged with gross misconduct and unprofessional behavior for taking sides in the dispute. (references)
	Guatemala	Some justice workers interpreted the judge's request to be recused after having already been involved in the case for some months as unprofessional and needlessly casting doubt on the pretrial decisions in which he had taken part. (references)
Political Economy	Albania	The international community continued to provide training, advice, and equipment to improve the quality of the police forces; however, unprofessional behavior and corruption remained a major impediment to the development of an effective, civilian police force. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Unprofessional

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Mitch Daniels	I don't think so, and I sure hope not. I haven't seen that statement, but I don't find anything unprofessional about what we've done.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Unprofessional

"Unprofessional" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 95.65% of the time. "Unprofessional" is used about 69 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	95.65%	66	41,290
Noun (proper)	4.35%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	69	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Unprofessional

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
lawyer unprofessional	7
unprofessional	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unprofessional

Language		Translations for "unprofessional"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		joprofesional. (various references)

Arabic		‏مناف لأخلاق المهنة, ‏هاو (amateur, amateurish, collector, dabbler, dabbling, devotee, fan, non-professional), ‏غير محترف (amateur). (various references)

Bulgarian		непрофесионален, не на специалист. (various references)

Chinese		业余. (various references)

Czech		neprofesionální, neodborný (amateurish, inexpert). (various references)

Farsi		ناپیشه کار, غیرفنی (Laic), غیرحرفه ای (Amateur), اماتور (Amateur). (various references)

French		peu professionnel, contraire au code professionnel, amateur. (various references)

German		laienhaft (amateurish, amateurishly, inexpert, inexpertly, lay, unaware). (various references)

Greek		ασύμφωνοσ με τα ήθη και εξείσ του επιστημονικού κλάδου, ανεπιστημονικόσ, αντιεπαγγελματικόσ. (various references)

Hungarian		szakképzettség nélküli. (various references)

Italian		non professionale. (various references)

Pig Latin		ofessionalunpray

Portuguese		sem profissão, não profissional (non-professional), amador (amateur, dabbler, dabster, dilettante, fancier, lover). (various references)

Russian		непрофессиональный (amateurish, lay). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nestručan (unworkmanlike), neprofesionalan. (various references)

Spanish		no profesional (amateurish, lay, non-professional). (various references)

Swedish		oprofessionell, inte yrkesmässig, inte fackmannamässig. (various references)

Turkish		profesyonelce olmayan, meslek kurallarına aykırı, meslek ahlâkına aykırı, mesleği olmayan. (various references)

Ukrainian		який не ма�" професії, непрофесіональний (amateurish, non-professional). (various references)

Vietnamese		t� i tử (amateur, amateurish, dilettante, dilettanti, dilettantish, non-professional), nghiệp dư (amateur, amateurish, non-professional), không phải nh� nghề. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Unprofessional

Derivations
	Words beginning with "unprofessional": unprofessionally, unprofessionals. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Unprofessional"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "unprofessional" (pronounced u'nprufe"shunul)
11	-n p r u f e" sh u n u l	nonprofessional.
10	-p r u f e" sh u n u l	professional.
7	-f e" sh u n u l	confessional.
6	-e" sh u n u l	concessional, congressional, obsessional, processional.
5	-sh u n u l	aberrational, additional, binational, coeducational, compositional, computational, conditional, conformational, confrontational, congregational, connotational, constitutional, conventional, conversational, correctional, denominational, depositional, devotional, dimensional, directional, dysfunctional, educational, emotional, exceptional, factional, fictional, fluxional, foundational, fractional, functional, generational, gravitational, improvisational, informational, inspirational, institutional, instructional, intentional, intergenerational, international, investigational, Invitational, irrational, jurisdictional, motivational, multinational, national, navigational, nontraditional, nutritional, occupational, operational, optional, organizational, promotional, proportional, rational, recreational, relational, representational, rotational, sectional, sensational, situational, supranational, traditional, transformational, transitional, transnational, unconditional, unconstitutional, unconventional, unemotional, unintentional, untraditional, vocational.
4	-u n u l	abdominal, aboriginal, Arsenal, attitudinal, biphenyl, cantonal, Cardinal, collisional, criminal, delusional, diagonal, divisional, doctrinal, duodenal, erosional, gastrointestinal, hexagonal, impersonal, interpersonal, intestinal, juvenile, latitudinal, longitudinal, luminal, marginal, medicinal, nominal, noncriminal, occasional, octagonal, original, personal, phenomenal, polygonal, provisional, regional, retinal, seasonal, seminal, sentinel, subliminal, superregional, terminal, virginal.
3	-n u l	adrenal, anal, annal, annul, atonal, autumnal, carnal, channel, Colonel, communal, cornel, Darnel, departmental, diurnal, empanel, eternal, external, faunal, fennel, final, flannel, fraternal, funnel, hormonal, Hymnal, impanel, infernal, internal, journal, kennel, kernel, maternal, monoclonal, monsoonal, morainal, nocturnal, panel, paternal, penal, polyvinyl, renal, semifinal, shrapnel, signal, spinal, tonal, tribunal, tunnel, vaginal, venal, vernal, Vinal, vinyl.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Unprofessional

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-f-i-l-n-n-o-o-p-r-s-s-u"
	-2 letters: professional.
	-3 letters: aponeurosis, painfulness.
	-4 letters: nonpareils, nonserious, peninsular, peninsulas, perfusions, persuasion, plesiosaur, polonaises, prelusions, profession, profusions, prolusions, repulsions, sopraninos, sponsorial, unfairness.
	-5 letters: aerofoils, aloofness, arsenious, aspersion, erosional, farnesols, felonious, fluorines, fluoroses, fluorosis, foresails, fossorial, frailness, frauleins, furanoses, looniness, napoleons, nefarious, nonfossil, nonpareil, nonpluses, peninsula, perfusion, personals, pinafores, plainness, poisoners, polarises, polonaise, prelusion, preunions, profusion.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-f-i-l-n-n-o-o-p-r-s-s-u"
	+1 letter: unprofessionals.
	+2 letters: unprofessionally.
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