Profane

Adjective

 * 1) Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.
 * 2) Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.
 * 3) Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity; blasphemous, impious.  Hence, specifically; Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain; given to swearing; blasphemous; as, a profane person, word, oath, or tongue.

Synonyms

 * secular
 * temporal
 * worldly
 * unsanctified
 * unhallowed
 * unholy
 * irreligious
 * irreverent
 * ungodly
 * wicked
 * godless
 * impious
 * vulgar

Noun

 * 1) A person or thing that is profane.
 * 2) * 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, p. 244:
 * The nuns were employed in religious duties established in honour of St Clare, and to which no profane was ever admitted.
 * 1)  A person not a Mason.

Verb

 * 1)  To violate, as anything sacred; to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate; to pollute; as, to profane the name of God; to profane the Scriptures, or the ordinance of God.
 * 2)  To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to make a base employment of; to debase; to abuse; to defile.

Thesaurus
Fescennine, Philistine, Rabelaisian, abuse, abusive, apostate, atheistic, backsliding, bad, bawdy, befoul, blasphemous, blue, calumniatory, calumnious, carnal, carnal-minded, coarse, comminatory, commit sacrilege, common, contaminate, contemptuous, contumelious, convert, corrupt, cursing, damnatory, debase, defalcate, defile, defiled, degrade, denunciatory, desecrate, dirty, disbelieving, dishonor, disrespectful, divert, dysphemistic, earthly, earthy, embezzle, epithetic, ethnic, excommunicative, excommunicatory, execratory, fallen, fallen from grace, filthy, fleshly, foul, foul-mouthed, fulminatory, gentile, godless, heathen, idolatrous, immodest, impious, imprecatory, improper, impure, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, infidel, infidelic, iniquitous, irreligious, irreverent, lapsed, lay, low, maladminister, maledictory, material, materialistic, misapply, misappropriate, misemploy, mishandle, mismanage, misuse, mundane, nasty, naughty, nonsacred, obscene, off color, pagan, peculate, pervert, pilfer, pollute, profanatory, prostitute, raunchy, raw, recidivist, recidivistic, recreant, renegade, reprobate, ribald, risque, sacrilegious, scatologic, scurrile, scurrilous, secular, sinful, smutty, taboo, taint, temporal, terrestrial, the fleshly, the mundane, the profane, the secular, the temporal, the unholy, the worldly, tref, unbelieving, unblessed, unclean, uncouth, undutiful, ungodly, unhallowed, unholy, unmentionable, unprintable, unregenerate, unsacred, unsanctified, unspiritual, venomous, vile, violate, vitiate, vituperative, vulgar, wicked, worldly

Etymology
From prophane:, from  profanus:, from pro-: + fanum:.

Adjective

 * Finnish: maallinen, profaani
 * Macedonian: световен,


 * Portuguese:


 * Finnish: rienaava


 * Russian:


 * : profan


 * : profana

Verb

 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:

Related terms

 * profanation
 * profanity

Related terms

 * profanateur
 * profanation
 * profaner

Adjective
profane



Noun
profane