Impious

//ˈɪmpi.əs//

Synonyms for "impious" (67 found)

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Antonyms

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Synonyms

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Related terms

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dbpedia genre

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derived

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is a

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related to

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similar

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Translations

40 translations across 19 languages.

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Ancient Greek

1 entries
  • ἄθεος adj (lacking reverence or respect, especially towards a god)

Bulgarian

2 entries
  • безбожен adj (lacking reverence or respect, especially towards a god)
  • нечестив adj (not pious)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries
  • 不恭 adj (lacking reverence or respect, especially towards a god)
  • 不敬 adj (lacking reverence or respect, especially towards a god)
  • 不虔誠 /不虔诚 adj (not pious)
  • 無信仰的 /无信仰的 adj (not pious)

Czech

1 entries
  • bezbožný adj (not pious)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • malpia adj (not pious)

Finnish

2 entries
  • jumalaton adj (not pious)
  • jumalaton adj (lacking reverence or respect, especially towards a god)

French

2 entries
  • impie adj (not pious)
  • impie adj (lacking reverence or respect, especially towards a god)

German

2 entries
  • pietätlos adj (not pious)
  • pietätlos adj (lacking reverence or respect, especially towards a god)

Gothic

1 entries
  • 𐌰𐍆𐌲𐌿𐌸𐍃 adj (lacking reverence or respect, especially towards a god)

Indonesian

2 entries
  • durhaka adj (lacking reverence or respect, especially towards a god)
  • keparat adj (not pious)

Irish

4 entries
  • aindiaga adj (not pious)
  • aindiaga adj (lacking reverence or respect, especially towards a god)
  • éagráifeach adj (not pious)
  • éagráifeach adj (lacking reverence or respect, especially towards a god)

Japanese

2 entries
  • 不信心な adj (not pious)
  • 不敬な adj (lacking reverence or respect, especially towards a god)

Latin

3 entries
  • impius adj (not pious)
  • impius adj (lacking reverence or respect, especially towards a god)
  • nefastus adj (not pious)

Lithuanian

2 entries
  • bedieviškas adj (not pious)
  • nepagarbus adj (lacking reverence or respect, especially towards a god)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • ímpio adj (not pious)
  • ímpio adj (lacking reverence or respect, especially towards a god)

Russian

4 entries
  • безбо́жный adj (not pious)
  • безбо́жный adj (lacking reverence or respect, especially towards a god)
  • непочти́тельный adj (lacking reverence or respect, especially towards a god)
  • нечести́вый adj (not pious)

Spanish

1 entries
  • impío adj (not pious)

Swedish

2 entries
  • gudlös adj (not pious)
  • ogudaktig adj (not pious)

Tagalog

1 entries
  • lapastangan adj (lacking reverence or respect, especially towards a god)

Sample sentences

7 total sentences available.

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When they had lived happily together for a few years, the King's mother, who was a wicked woman, began to slander the young Queen, and said to the King, "This is a common beggar girl whom thou hast brought back with thee. Who knows what impious tricks she practises secretly!"

Source: tatoeba (4846315)

That men should pray and fight for their own freedom, and yet keep others in slavery, is certainly acting a very inconsistent, as well as unjust and, perhaps, impious part.

Source: tatoeba (6003107)

O most wicked and impious of men, to what lengths has your madness driven you!

Source: tatoeba (6213010)

" 'twixt whom a feud took fire. / He, reckless of a sister's love, and blind / with lust of gold, Sychaeus unaware / slew by the altar, and with impious mind / long hid the deed, and flattering hopes and fair / devised, to cheat the lover of her care."

Source: tatoeba (6787243)

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