PROFANE

Pronunciation (US):

• PROFANE (adjective)
  The adjective PROFANE has 4 senses:

1. characterized by profanity or cursing
2. not sacred or concerned with religion
3. not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled
4. grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred

  Familiarity information: PROFANE used as an adjective is uncommon.

• PROFANE (verb)
  The verb PROFANE has 2 senses:

1. corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
2. violate the sacred character of a place or language

  Familiarity information: PROFANE used as a verb is rare.

• PROFANE (adjective)

Meaning:

Characterized by profanity or cursing

Synonyms:

profane; blasphemous; blue

Context examples:

foul-mouthed and blasphemous / blue language / profane words

Similar:

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

Meaning:

Not sacred or concerned with religion

Context examples:

sacred and profane music / children being brought up in an entirely profane environment

Similar:

secularised; secularized (made secular)

profanatory (profaning or tending to desecrate)

laic; lay; secular (concerning those not members of the clergy)

temporal; worldly (concerned with secular rather than sacred matters)

Also:

impious (lacking piety or reverence for a god)

earthly (of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven)

Antonym:

sacred (concerned with religion or religious purposes)

Meaning:

Not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled

Synonyms:

unconsecrated; unsanctified; profane

Similar:

unhallowed; unholy (not hallowed or consecrated)

Meaning:

Grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred

Synonyms:

blasphemous; sacrilegious; profane

Context examples:

blasphemous rites of a witches' Sabbath / profane utterances against the Church / it is sacrilegious to enter with shoes on

Similar:

irreverent (showing lack of due respect or veneration)

• PROFANE (verb)

Meaning:

Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

vitiate; profane; pervert; misdirect; deprave; demoralize; demoralise; debauch; debase; corrupt; subvert

Context examples:

debauch the young people with wine and women / Socrates was accused of corrupting young men / Do school counselors subvert young children? / corrupt the morals

Hypernyms (to "profane" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "profane"):

carnalise; carnalize; sensualise; sensualize (debase through carnal gratification)

infect (contaminate with ideas or an ideology)

lead astray; lead off (teach immoral behavior to)

whore (corrupt by lewd intercourse)

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)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Meaning:

Violate the sacred character of a place or language

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

desecrate; outrage; profane; violate

Context examples:

desecrate a cemetery / violate the sanctity of the church / profane the name of God

Hypernyms (to "profane" is one way to...):

assail; assault; attack; set on (attack someone physically or emotionally)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something