declared

[ dih-klaird ]

adjective

1. publicly avowed or professed; self-confessed:

   a declared liberal.

Other Words From

• de·clar·ed·ly [dih-, klair, -id-lee], adverb
• unde·clared adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of declared¹

First recorded in 1645–55; declare + -ed ²

Example Sentences

The parent company of the FanDuel channels declared bankruptcy, and Manfred hoped the MLB teams would take back their broadcast rights and grant them to the league.

From Los Angeles Times

“The mismanagement was abhorrent,” one young man told the BBC, adding that lives could have been saved if the disaster had been better handled: “He has declared he’s not willing to step down so we need to keep up the volume against him.”

From BBC

They uniformly declared that the election was so tight, both at the national and state levels, that it was a coin toss.

From Salon

But in this election, most people who consider themselves to be good white Christians flatly declared that white supremacy was, at a minimum, not a deal breaker for them.

From Salon

To follow alongside the inquiry, the BBC's data team has broken down some of these statistics into key areas from the beginning of the pandemic up to 5 May 2023, when the World Health Organisation declared an end to the virus as a "global health emergency", external.

From BBC

Related Words

• announced
• stated