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profaneadjective not involving religion or religious mattersit was hard to juggle the requirements of church and our more profane duties nonreligious, secular, temporal atheistic, godless, irreligious, pagan, paganish, religionlesslaical(or laic), lay, nonclericalnondenominational, nonsectarianearthly, mundane, terrene, terrestrial, worldlymaterial, physical, substantialbodily, carnal, corporal, fleshlyblasphemous, impious, irreverent, sacrilegiousunconsecrated, unhallowed religious, sacred divine, spiritualconsecrated, hallowed, holy, sacrosanct, sanctifiedchurchly, devout, godly, pious, prayerful, reverent, worshipfulethereal, insubstantial, metaphysical, unsubstantialbodiless, immaterial, incorporeal, nonphysical not showing proper reverence for the holy or sacredoffended by the profane language that her coworkers used so casually blasphemous, impious, irreverent, sacrilegious agnostic, atheistic(or atheistical)godless, heretical(also heretic), irreligious, miscreant, nonreligious, religionless, secularungodly, unholyunconsecrated, unhallowedheathen, pagan, paganish pious, reverent devout, God-fearing, godly, holy, prayerful, religious, sainted, saintly, worshipful, worshipping(also worshiping)consecrated, hallowed, sacred, sacrosanct, sanctified depicting or referring to sexual matters in a way that is unacceptable in polite societyhis idea of dinner table conversation is the telling of profane stories about his alleged sexual exploits bawdy, blue, coarse, crude, dirty, filthy, foul, gross, gutter, impure, indecent, lascivious, lewd, locker-room, nasty, obscene, pornographic, porny, raunchy, ribald, smutty, stag, trashy, unprintable, vulgar, wanton, X-rated broad, coarse-grained, gamy(or gamey), off, off-color(or off-colored), racy, risqué, salacious, salty, suggestivebarnyard, earthy, scatologicalimmodest, indecorous, indelicate, low, unbecomingdepraved, kinky, louche, naughty, perverse, perverted, wickedexceptionable, objectionable, unacceptable, undesirable, unwanted, unwelcomeabhorrent, debasing, disgusting, loathsome, offensive, repellent(also repellant), repugnant, repulsive, revoltingdistasteful, obnoxious, unpleasantblamable, blameworthy, censurable, reprehensibleatrocious, infamousabusive, scurriloushard-core, soft, soft-core clean, decent, G-rated, nonobscene, wholesome priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, staid, straitlaced(or straightlaced), Victoriancorrect, decorous, genteel, nice, polite, proper, respectable, seemlyinnocuous, inoffensiveacceptable, agreeable, desirable, pleasant, pleasing, welcomeappropriate, becoming, fit, meet, suitableimmaculate, perfect, pure, spotless, virginalapproved, endorsed(also indorsed), sanctioned profaneverbto lower in character, dignity, or qualitythe once-lovely landscape had been profaned by ugly factories abase, bastardize, canker, cheapen, corrupt, debase, debauch, degrade, demean, demoralize, deprave, deteriorate, lessen, pervert, poison, prostitute, subvert, vitiate, warp befoul, begrime, contaminate, defile, dilute, dirty, pollute, taint, thin, water down, weakendescenddisgrace, dishonor, humble, humiliate, shame, take downblemish, damage, deface, destroy, flaw, harm, hurt, impair, mar, ruin, spoil, stain, tarnish, wreckdepreciate, downgrade elevate, ennoble, uplift dignify, exalt, honorameliorate, amend, better, enhance, enrich, improve, meliorate, perfectclarify, clean, cleanse, purify, refine, restorerespect to put to a bad or improper useprofaned his considerable acting talents by appearing in some wretched movies abuse, misapply, misemploy, misuse, pervert, prostitute degrade, twistmismanagecorrupt, debase, desecrate apply, employ, use, utilizerespect to treat (a sacred place or object) shamefully or with great disrespectinvading troops profaned the altar by playing poker on it defile, desecrate, violate deconsecrate, desacralize, desanctifyblaspheme, curse, swearbefoul, contaminate, foul, poison, pollute, soil, sully, taintaffront, defame, insult, offend, outrageannihilate, crush, decimate, demolish, desolate, destroy, devastate, ravage, raze, ruin, waste, wreckdespoil, loot, pillage, plunder, raid, ransack, rob, sack, spoil, strip bless, consecrate, dedicate, hallow, sanctifyhonor, respectcleanse, purge, purify in the 14th century |