The profane language used on network television makes many parents with young children not want to subscribe to cable.
Source: tatoeba (1960)
Profane
Synonyms for "profane" (205 found)
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Related words (102)
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Adjective(16 words)
Adjective(4 words)
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7 entriesAntonyms
5 entriesSynonyms
18 entriesShowing 16 of 18 words.
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6 entriesderived
7 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
16 entriessimilar
16 entriesTranslations
93 translations across 22 languages.
Ancient Greek
4 entries- βέβηλος adj (Not sacred or holy)
- βέβηλος adj (Treating sacred matters with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity)
- ἀσεβής adj (Treating sacred matters with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity)
- βεβηλόω verb (To violate, as anything sacred; to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt)
Armenian
1 entries- պղծել verb (To violate, as anything sacred; to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt)
Belarusian
4 entries- блюзне́рскі adj (Treating sacred matters with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity)
- блюзне́рскі adj (taking the name of God in vain)
- богазневажа́льны adj (Treating sacred matters with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity)
- богазневажа́льны adj (taking the name of God in vain)
Bulgarian
4 entries- богоху́лен adj (Treating sacred matters with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity)
- богоху́лен adj (taking the name of God in vain)
- ми́рски adj (Not sacred or holy)
- непосвете́н adj (Not sacred or holy)
Catalan
2 entries- profà adj (Not sacred or holy)
- profanar verb (To violate, as anything sacred; to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt)
Dutch
1 entries- profaan adj (unclean; impure; polluted; unholy)
Finnish
4 entries- epäkunnioittava adj (Treating sacred matters with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity)
- epäpyhä adj (unclean; impure; polluted; unholy)
- epäpyhä adj (Not sacred or holy)
- maallinen adj (unclean; impure; polluted; unholy)
French
4 entries- impur adj (unclean; impure; polluted; unholy)
- profane adj (unclean; impure; polluted; unholy)
- profane adj (Not sacred or holy)
- sacrilège adj (Treating sacred matters with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity)
Galician
1 entries- profanar verb (To violate, as anything sacred; to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt)
German
1 entries- weltlich adj (Not sacred or holy)
Greek
4 entries- ανίερος adj (unclean; impure; polluted; unholy)
- ανίερος adj (Not sacred or holy)
- ανόσιος adj (unclean; impure; polluted; unholy)
- ανόσιος adj (Not sacred or holy)
Irish
1 entries- diamhaslach adj (Treating sacred matters with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity)
Italian
4 entries- blasfemo adj (Not sacred or holy)
- empio adj (Treating sacred matters with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity)
- profano adj (Not sacred or holy)
- profano adj (Treating sacred matters with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity)
Japanese
4 entries- 世俗の adj (Not sacred or holy)
- 卑賎な adj (Treating sacred matters with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity)
- 汚らわしい adj (Treating sacred matters with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity)
- 冒涜する verb (To violate, as anything sacred; to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt)
Latin
2 entries- nefastus adj (unclean; impure; polluted; unholy)
- profānus adj (Not sacred or holy)
Macedonian
2 entries- про́фан adj (Not sacred or holy)
- све́товен adj (Not sacred or holy)
Occitan
1 entries- profan adj (Not sacred or holy)
Polish
2 entries- bluźnierczy adj (Treating sacred matters with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity)
- bluźnierczy adj (taking the name of God in vain)
Portuguese
1 entries- profano adj (Not sacred or holy)
Russian
4 entries- богоху́льный adj (Treating sacred matters with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity)
- богоху́льный adj (taking the name of God in vain)
- мирско́й adj (Not sacred or holy)
- непосвящённый adj (Not sacred or holy)
Spanish
4 entries- blasfemo adj (taking the name of God in vain)
- profano adj (Not sacred or holy)
- profano adj (Treating sacred matters with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity)
- sacrílego adj (unclean; impure; polluted; unholy)
Ukrainian
4 entries- блюзні́рський adj (Treating sacred matters with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity)
- блюзні́рський adj (taking the name of God in vain)
- богознева́жний adj (Treating sacred matters with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity)
- богознева́жний adj (taking the name of God in vain)
Sample sentences
22 total sentences available.
We call scriptures the sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
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Know then that in the time of the Great Rebellion this Manor of Baskerville was held by Hugo of that name, nor can it be gainsaid that he was a most wild, profane, and godless man.
Source: tatoeba (6605705)
"But when Ulysses, fain / to weave new crimes, with Tydeus' impious son / dragged the Palladium from her sacred fane, / and, on the citadel the warders slain, / upon the virgin's image dared to lay / red hands of slaughter, and her wreaths profane, / hope ebbed and failed them from that fatal day, / the Danaans' strength grew weak, the goddess turned away. / No dubious signs Tritonia's wrath declared."
Source: tatoeba (6813957)
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