'Blasphemous' definitions:
Definition of 'blasphemous'
From: WordNet
adjective
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]
adjective
Definition of 'Blasphemous'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Nor from the Holy One of Heaven Refrained his tongue blasphemous. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Formerly this word was accented on the second syllable, as in the above example. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'blasphemous'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Rabelaisian,
- raw,
- recidivist,
- recidivistic,
- recreant,
- renegade,
- ribald,
- risque,
- sacrilegious,
- scatologic,
- scurrile,
- scurrilous,
- sinful,
- undutiful,
- vile,
- vituperative,
- wicked