'Impious' definitions:
Definition of 'impious'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Impious'
From: GCIDE
- Impious \Im"pi*ous\, a. [L. impius; pref. im- not + pius piou. See Pious.] Not pious; wanting piety; irreligious; irreverent; ungodly; profane; wanting in reverence for the Supreme Being; as, an impious deed; impious language. [1913 Webster]
- When vice prevails, and impious men bear away, The post of honor is a private station. --Addison.
- Syn: Impious, Irreligious, Profane.
- Usage: Irreligious is negative, impious and profane are positive. An indifferent man may be irreligious; a profane man is irreverent in speech and conduct; an impious man is wickedly and boldly defiant in the strongest sense. Profane also has the milder sense of secular. --C. J. Smith. -- {Im"pi*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Im"pi*ous*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'impious'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- apostate,
- arch,
- atheistic,
- backsliding,
- blasphemous,
- casual,
- coltish,
- contrary,
- devil-may-care,
- disobedient,
- elvish,
- fallen,
- fallen from grace,
- flippant,
- free and easy,
- fresh,
- frolicsome,
- froward,
- giddy,
- godless,
- iconoclastic,
- impish,
- iniquitous,
- irreligious,
- irreverent,
- lapsed,
- mischievous,
- offhand,
- pert,
- perverse,
- pixieish,
- profanatory,
- profane,
- puckish,
- recidivist,
- recidivistic,
- recreant,
- renegade,
- roguish,
- sacrilegious,
- saucy,
- scandalous,
- sinful,
- sportive,
- un-Christly,
- unangelic,
- unchristian,
- undevout,
- unduteous,
- undutiful,
- unfaithful,
- ungodly,
- unhallowed,
- unholy,
- unrighteous,
- unsaintly,
- waggish,
- wayward,
- wicked,
- wrongheaded