Entry Word: irreverent

Function: adjective

Meaning: not showing proper reverence for the holy or sacred <irreverent behavior during church services>

Synonyms blasphemous, impious, profane, sacrilegious

Related Words agnostic, atheistic; godless, irreligious, nonreligious, secular; ungodly, unholy; unconsecrated, unhallowed, unsanctified

Near Antonyms devout, godly, holy, prayerful, religious, worshipful, worshipping (also worshiping); consecrated, hallowed, sanctified

Antonyms pious, reverent