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Profane is the sort of language that gets bleeped on TV but it's also whenever you deeply offend people with how little respect you show something (usually religious).

The Latin root profanus means "unholy," and that's where it all started. If you take the Lord's name in vain, you've profaned Him and probably made your mom pretty angry too. Don't even try the curse words so vital to a truly great hip-hop track but perhaps not recommended for dinner with Grandma.

DEFINITIONS OF: profane

adj grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred

“profane utterances against the Church”

Synonyms:: blasphemous, sacrilegious

: irreverent
showing lack of due respect or veneration

adj not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled

Synonyms:: unconsecrated, unsanctified

: unhallowed, unholy
not hallowed or consecrated

adj not concerned with or devoted to religion

“sacred and profane music”

“"secular architecture", "children being brought up in an entirely profane environment”

Synonyms:: secular

: earthly
of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven; impious
lacking piety or reverence for a god; laic, lay, secular
characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy; profanatory
profaning or tending to desecrate; secular, temporal, worldly
characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world

Antonyms:: sacred
concerned with religion or religious purposes; consecrate, consecrated, dedicated
solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high purpose; heavenly
of or belonging to heaven or god; pious
having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity; divine
devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity; ineffable, unnameable, unspeakable, unutterable
too sacred to be uttered; inspirational
imparting a divine influence on the mind and soul; inviolable, inviolate, sacrosanct
must be kept sacred; numinous
evincing the presence of a deity; quasi-religious
resembling something that is religious; religious, spiritual
concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church; reverend, sublime
worthy of adoration or reverence; sacral
of or relating to sacred rites; taboo, tabu
forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands; show more antonyms...

adj characterized by profanity or cursing

“profane words”

Synonyms:: blasphemous, blue

: dirty
(of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency

v violate the sacred character of a place or language

“profane the name of God”

Synonyms:: desecrate, outrage, violate

Type of:: assail, assault, attack, set on
attack someone physically or emotionally

v corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality

Synonyms:: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, subvert, vitiate

Types:: show 6 types...; hide 6 types...; carnalise, carnalize, sensualise, sensualize
debase through carnal gratification; infect
corrupt with ideas or an ideology; lead astray, lead off
teach immoral behavior to; poison
spoil as if by poison; bastardise, bastardize
change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms; suborn
incite to commit a crime or an evil deed

Type of:: alter, change, modify
cause to change; make different; cause a transformation

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