Profane

Quick meaning: Profane is an adjective meaning Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.

Meaning

Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.

More Meanings

1. Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.
2. Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or scorn; blasphemous, impious.
3. Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain.
4. A person or thing that is profane.
5. (Freemasonry) A person not a Mason.
6. (transitive) To violate (something sacred); to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate
7. (transitive) To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to debase; to abuse; to defile.

Example Sentences

profane authors

a profane person, word, oath, or tongue

Nothing is profane that serveth to the use of holy things.

The nuns were employed in religious duties established in honour of St Clare, and to which no profane was ever admitted.

Word Forms

• profaner
• profanest
• prophane
• profanes
• profaning
• profaned

Synonyms for profane

Depending on context, synonyms include inappropriate, obscene, debased, uncouth, offensive, ignoble.

Antonyms for profane

Common opposites include consecrate, sanctify, faithful, holy, orthodox, religious.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sacrilegious, desecrate, profanatory, unholy, blasphemous, deprave.

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