'Sacrilegious' definitions:
Definition of 'sacrilegious'
(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]
Definition of 'Sacrilegious'
From: GCIDE
- Sacrilegious \Sac`ri*le"gious\, a. [From sacrilege: cf. L. sacrilegus.] Violating sacred things; polluted with sacrilege; involving sacrilege; profane; impious. [1913 Webster]
- Above the reach of sacrilegious hands. --Pope. [1913 Webster] -- {Sac`ri*le"gious*ly}, adv. -- {Sac`ri*le"gious*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sacrilegious'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrant,
- abnormal,
- abominable,
- apostate,
- atheistic,
- atrocious,
- backsliding,
- blasphemous,
- criminal,
- delinquent,
- deviant,
- disgraceful,
- disrespectful,
- evil,
- fallen,
- fallen from grace,
- hardly the thing,
- heretical,
- ignominious,
- illegal,
- impious,
- improper,
- inappropriate,
- incorrect,
- indecorous,
- infamous,
- irreligious,
- irreverent,
- lapsed,
- not done,
- not the thing,
- off-base,
- off-color,
- out-of-line,
- profanatory,
- profane,
- recidivist,
- recidivistic,
- recreant,
- renegade,
- scandalous,
- shameful,
- shameless,
- sinful,
- terrible,
- undue,
- undutiful,
- unfit,
- unfitting,
- ungodly,
- unlawful,
- unrighteous,
- unseemly,
- unsuitable,
- wicked,
- wrong,
- wrongful