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profane
Synonyms and Antonyms of profane
- it was hard to juggle the requirements of church and our more profane duties
- offended by the profane language that her coworkers used so casually
agnostic, atheistic (or atheistical)
godless, heretical (also heretic), irreligious, miscreant, nonreligious, religionless, secular
devout, God-fearing, godly, holy, prayerful, religious, sainted, saintly, worshipful, worshipping (also worshiping)
- his idea of dinner table conversation is the telling of profane stories about his alleged sexual exploits
broad, coarse-grained, gamy (or gamey), off, off-color (or off-colored), racy, risqué, salacious, salty, suggestive
barnyard, earthy, scatological
immodest, indecorous, indelicate, low, unbecoming
depraved, kinky, louche, naughty, perverse, perverted, wicked
exceptionable, objectionable, unacceptable, undesirable, unwanted, unwelcome
abhorrent, debasing, disgusting, loathsome, offensive, repellent (also repellant), repugnant, repulsive, revolting
distasteful, obnoxious, unpleasant
priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, staid, straitlaced (or straightlaced), Victorian
correct, decorous, genteel, nice, polite, proper, respectable, seemly
acceptable, agreeable, desirable, pleasant, pleasing, welcome
appropriate, becoming, fit, meet, suitable
immaculate, perfect, pure, spotless, virginal
approved, endorsed (also indorsed), sanctioned
profane
Synonyms and Antonyms of profane
- the once-lovely landscape had been profaned by ugly factories
abase, bastardize, canker, cheapen, corrupt, debase, debauch, degrade, demean, demoralize, deprave, deteriorate, lessen, pervert, poison, prostitute, subvert, vitiate, warp
- profaned his considerable acting talents by appearing in some wretched movies
- invading troops profaned the altar by playing poker on it
deconsecrate, desacralize, desanctify
befoul, contaminate, foul, poison, pollute, soil, sully, taint
affront, defame, insult, offend, outrage
annihilate, crush, decimate, demolish, desolate, destroy, devastate, ravage, raze, ruin, waste, wreck
despoil, loot, pillage, plunder, raid, ransack, rob, sack, spoil, strip
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