'Profane' definitions:
Definition of 'profane'
From: WordNet
adjective
Characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words" [syn: blasphemous, blue, profane]
adjective
Not concerned with or devoted to religion; "sacred and profane music"; "secular drama"; "secular architecture", "children being brought up in an entirely profane environment" [syn: profane, secular] [ant: sacred]
adjective
Not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled [syn: profane, unconsecrated, unsanctified]
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]
verb
Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals" [syn: corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect]
verb
Definition of 'Profane'
From: GCIDE
- Profane \Pro*fane"\, a. [F., fr. L. profanus, properly, before the temple, i. e., without the temple, unholy; pro before + fanum temple. See 1st Fane.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, religious, or inspired; as, a profane place. "Profane authors." --I. Disraeli. [1913 Webster]
- The profane wreath was suspended before the shrine. --Gibbon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Unclean; impure; polluted; unholy. [1913 Webster]
- Nothing is profane that serveth to holy things. --Sir W. Raleigh. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity; irreverent; 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. --1 Tim. i. 9. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Secular; temporal; worldly; unsanctified; unhallowed; unholy; irreligious; irreverent; ungodly; wicked; godless; impious. See Impious. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Profane'
From: GCIDE
- Profane \Pro*fane"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Profaned; p. pr. & vb. n. Profaning.] [L. profanare: cf. F. profaner. See Profane, a.] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- The priests in the temple profane the sabbath. --Matt. xii. 5. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to make a base employment of; to debase; to abuse; to defile. [1913 Webster]
- So idly to profane the precious time. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'profane'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Fescennine,
- 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,
- Philistine,
- pilfer,
- pollute,
- profanatory,
- prostitute,
- Rabelaisian,
- 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