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Blasphemous definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BLAS'PHEMOUS, a. Containing blasphemy; calumnious; impiously irreverent or reproachful towards God.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

adjective Date: 15th century impiously irreverent ; profane • blasphemously adverb • blasphemousness noun

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

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

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Impious, sacrilegious, profane.

Moby Thesaurus

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