PROFANE


Meaning of PROFANE in English

adjective

1.

not concerned with religion or religious purposes

he was speaking of profane history, not the history found in the Bible

Synonyms: lay, secular, temporal, unsacred

Related Word: earthly, mundane, terrestrial, worldly

Contrasted words: consecrated, hallowed, holy, sanctified; divine, religious, spiritual

Antonyms: sacred

2.

Synonyms: heathen , ethnic, gentile, infidel, infidelic, pagan

3.

Synonyms: impious 1, irreverent, irreverential, ungodly, unhallowed, unholy

4.

Synonyms: sacrilegious , blasphemous

5.

Synonyms: obscene 2, coarse, dirty, filthy, foul, indecent, nasty, raunchy, smutty, vulgar

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