Professional vs Proficient - What's the difference?
professional | proficient |
A person who belongs to a profession
A person who earns his living from a specified activity
An expert.
* 1934 , edition, ISBN 0553278193, page 97:
Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.
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*:His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;.
That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood.
(lb) Expert.
Good at; skilled; fluent; practiced, especially in relation to a task or skill.
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
Proficient is a antonym of professional.
As nouns the difference between professional and proficient
is that professional is a person who belongs to a profession while proficient is an expert.As adjectives the difference between professional and proficient
is that professional is of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession while proficient is good at; skilled; fluent; practiced, especially in relation to a task or skill.professional
English
Noun
(wikipedia professional) (en noun)- I have learned that there is a person attached to a golf club called a professional'. Find out who fills that post at the Green Meadow Club; invite the ' professional , urgently, to dine with us this evening.
Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* non-professional, nonprofessional * professionalism * unprofessionalproficient
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He was a proficient writer with an interest in human nature.
- By constant playing and experimenting with these he learned to tie rude knots, and make sliding nooses; and with these he and the younger apes amused themselves. What Tarzan did they tried to do also, but he alone originated and became proficient .