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blasphemous
blasphemous
adjective
Definition of BLASPHEMOUS
not showing proper reverence for the holy or sacred <Catholics used to believe that anyone but a priest touching a consecrated wafer was blasphemous>
Related Words agnostic, atheistic (or atheistical); godless, heretical (also heretic), irreligious, miscreant, nonreligious, religionless, secular; ungodly, unholy; unconsecrated, unhallowed; heathen, pagan, paganish
Near Antonyms devout, God-fearing, godly, holy, prayerful, religious, sainted, saintly, worshipful, worshipping (also worshiping); consecrated, hallowed, sacred, sacrosanct, sanctified
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