PROFANATORY Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

profanatory

adjective

Definition of profanatory

as in blasphemous

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Adjective

Many of their performances are blasphemous, and their work only displays hate and mockery of Catholics and the Christian faith.

— Jon Root OutKick, FOXNews.com, 6 June 2026
This way of approaching the story would help make its portrait of Jesus all the more human, and, to some, all the more blasphemous.

— Isaac Butler, New Yorker, 30 May 2026

Definition of blasphemous

Adjective

But the pair later bonded over golf and what Graham described as a mutual and irreverent sense of humor.

— Will Weissert, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026
Marie Antoinette was bold, beautiful, irreverent and hugely influential, and to revisit it now through Eleanor Coppola’s eyes, as both a filmmaker and a mother, is incredibly moving.

— Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 8 July 2026

Definition of irreverent

Adjective

So special that the very idea of wearing them again was sacrilegious.

— Rebecca Cope, Vogue, 7 July 2026
Even the recipe deemed sacrilegious in Carbonaragate cannot evoke the same dramatic reactions or touch the same sensitivities that surround cheese—a relationship that, like wine and bread, is often inseparable from faith, sometimes quite literally.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 June 2026

Definition of sacrilegious

Adjective

Many other traditionalists have made a version of Scruton’s critique, insisting that contemporary art reflects self-indulgent, relativistic, and impious tendencies.

— Luis Parrales, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2026
While no formal announcement has been made to update its longstanding alcohol ban, Andrew Leber of Tulane University said this is in line with the Kingdom’s past approach to such potentially impious reforms.

— Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025

Definition of impious

Adjective

Huffman, who represents a sprawling slice of Northern California, reaching from the Bay Area to the Oregon border, is one of just four members (out of more than 500) who are openly agnostic or religiously unaffiliated.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
Drawdowns 'faster and more severe' For one thing, there has always been a popular fascination with mechanical, forced or price-agnostic sources of supply and demand for stocks.

— Michael Santoli, CNBC, 7 July 2026

Definition of agnostic

Adjective

Solstices are often associated with pagan religions and draw revelers of different faiths.

— Julia Gomez, USA Today, 20 June 2026
There’s more than a tinge of folk horror to this lingering mystery, which brings to mind the 1973 genre landmark The Wicker Man, in which a puritanical police officer travels to a remote island community that’s reverted to old pagan ways.

— Keith Phipps, Vulture, 15 June 2026

Definition of pagan

Adjective

The one that slathers every bowl with ungodly amounts of cheese?

— Lucia Cheng, Des Moines Register, 16 May 2026
From the ungodly stuff leading to success, to setting a postseason record for appearances, to barking like a dog to fire up teammates, Varland is settling in.

— Dan Hayes, New York Times, 1 May 2026

Definition of ungodly

Adjective

The laws might prevent what some people believe is morally right, or command – in the name of protecting others’ rights or the common good – what others regard as unjust or unholy.

— Robert A. Ballingall, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
To get this far, the architects navigated an unholy gauntlet of constraints.

— Justin Davidson, Curbed, 8 June 2026

Definition of unholy

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