BLASPHEMOUS DEFINITIONS - 8 definitions found
blasphemous adj 1: grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred; "blasphemous rites of a witches' Sabbath"; "profane utterances against the Church"; "it is sacrilegious to enter with shoes on" [syn: blasphemous, profane, sacrilegious] 2: characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words" [syn: blasphemous, blue, profane] Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) blasphemous adjective Date: 15th century impiously irreverent ; profane • blasphemously adverb • blasphemousness noun Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary blasphemous You can describe someone who shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemous. You can also describe what they are saying or doing as blasphemous. She was accused of being blasphemous... Critics attacked the film as blasphemous. ADJ Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Blasphemous \Blas"phe*mous\, a. [L. blasphemus, Gr. ?.] Speaking or writing blasphemy; uttering or exhibiting anything impiously irreverent; profane; as, a blasphemous person; containing blasphemy; as, a blasphemous book; a blasphemous caricature. ``Blasphemous publications.'' --Porteus. Nor from the Holy One of Heaven Refrained his tongue blasphemous. --Milton. Note: Formerly this word was accented on the second syllable, as in the above example. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms blasphemous a. Impious, sacrilegious, profane. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) blasphemous ˈblæsfɪməs adj. profane, impious, irreverent, disrespectful, sacrilegious, irreligious, sinful, wicked, evil, iniquitous: He was excommunicated for his blasphemous writings. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 50 Moby Thesaurus words for "blasphemous": Rabelaisian, abusive, apostate, atheistic, backsliding, calumniatory, calumnious, comminatory, contumelious, cursing, damnatory, denunciatory, dirty, disrespectful, dysphemistic, epithetic, evil, excommunicative, excommunicatory, execratory, fallen, fallen from grace, foul, fulminatory, impious, imprecatory, iniquitous, irreligious, irreverent, lapsed, maledictory, obscene, profanatory, profane, raw, recidivist, recidivistic, recreant, renegade, ribald, risque, sacrilegious, scatologic, scurrile, scurrilous, sinful, undutiful, vile, vituperative, wicked |
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