impious

impious

adjective

Definition of IMPIOUS

not showing proper reverence for the holy or sacred <an impious act that horrified their pious mother>

Synonyms blasphemous, impious, profane, sacrilegious

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

Antonyms pious, reverent