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profaner
Overview of adj profane
The adj profane has 4 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) blasphemous, blue, profane -- (characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words")
2. profane -- (not sacred or concerned with religion; "sacred and profane music"; "children being brought up in an entirely profane environment")
3. profane, unconsecrated, unsanctified -- (not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled)
4. blasphemous, profane, sacrilegious -- (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")
Antonyms of adj profane
4 senses of profane
Sense 1
blasphemous, blue, profane
INDIRECT (VIA dirty) -> clean, unobjectionable
Sense 2
profane (vs. sacred)
sacred (vs. profane)
=> divine
=> ineffable, unnameable, unspeakable, unutterable
=> inspirational
=> inviolable, inviolate, sacrosanct
=> numinous
=> quasi-religious
=> religious, spiritual
=> reverend, sublime
=> sacral
=> taboo, tabu
Sense 3
profane, unconsecrated, unsanctified
INDIRECT (VIA unholy) -> holy
Sense 4
blasphemous, profane, sacrilegious
INDIRECT (VIA irreverent) -> reverent
Similarity of adj profane
4 senses of profane
Sense 1
blasphemous, blue, profane
=> dirty (vs. clean)
Sense 2
profane (vs. sacred)
=> laic, lay, secular
=> profanatory
=> secularized, secularised
=> temporal, worldly
Also See> earthly#1; impious#1
Sense 3
profane, unconsecrated, unsanctified
=> unholy (vs. holy), unhallowed
Sense 4
blasphemous, profane, sacrilegious
=> irreverent (vs. reverent)
Pertainyms of adj profane
Attributes of adj profane
Domain of adj profane
Domain Terms of adj profane
Familiarity of adj profane
profane used as an adjective is uncommon (polysemy count =4)
Grep of adj profane
profane
profaned
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