Synonyms for profane
prəˈfeɪn, proʊ-pro·fane

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1. profaneadjective

   Synonyms:
   godless, unholy, unsanctified, impious, unhallowed, ungodly, temporal, wicked, vulgar, irreligious, secular, irreverent, worldly

2. profaneadjective

   To violate, as anything sacred; to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate; to pollute; as, to profane the name of God; to profane the Scriptures, or the ordinance of God.

   Synonyms:
   worldly, irreligious, unholy, unsanctified, temporal, secular, wicked, impious, godless, unhallowed, ungodly, vulgar, irreverent

3. profaneadjective

   To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to make a base employment of; to debase; to abuse; to defile.

   Synonyms:
   irreligious, wicked, irreverent, impious, unsanctified, temporal, godless, unholy, unhallowed, ungodly, worldly, secular, vulgar

4. profaneadjective

   Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity; blasphemous, impious. Hence, specifically; Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain; given to swearing; blasphemous; as, a profane person, word, oath, or tongue.

   Synonyms:
   temporal, vulgar, secular, irreverent, godless, unholy, impious, unhallowed, unsanctified, ungodly, irreligious, wicked, worldly

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1. profane

   Synonyms:
   contemn, despise, dishonor, disregard, forget, ignore, neglect, overlook, violate

   Antonyms:
   celebrate, commemorate, keep, observe, solemnize

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1. profaneadjective

   Synonyms:
   unconsecrated, secular, temporal, unsanctified, unholy, irreligious, irreverent, ungodly, wicked, godless, impious, blasphemous

   Antonyms:
   holy, consecrated, sacred, spiritual, sanctified, reverent, religious, godly, pious, devout

2. profaneverb

   Synonyms:
   defile, pollute, desecrate, abuse

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1. blasphemous, blue, profaneadjective

   characterized by profanity or cursing

   "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words"

   Synonyms:
   down(p), dispirited, racy, sacrilegious, gamy, bluish, dismal, dark, unconsecrated, gentle, disconsolate, down in the mouth, gloomy, drear, puritanical, low, naughty, blue, secular, blueish, gamey, downhearted, juicy, downcast, blasphemous, drab, patrician, blue-blooded, unsanctified, spicy, aristocratic, blue(a), sorry, aristocratical, puritanic, grim, depressed, dingy, dreary, risque, low-spirited

   Antonyms:
   quasi-religious, sacral, inviolate, unutterable, divine, tabu, reverent, clean, inviolable, holy, sublime, unspeakable, sacred, inspirational, unnameable, sacrosanct, reverend, religious, spiritual, ineffable, numinous, unobjectionable, taboo

2. profane, secularadjective

   not concerned with or devoted to religion

   "sacred and profane music"; "secular drama"; "secular architecture", "children being brought up in an entirely profane environment"

   Synonyms:
   lay, secular, worldly, unconsecrated, blasphemous, laic, unsanctified, temporal, sacrilegious, blue

   Antonyms:
   holy, taboo, tabu, divine, unspeakable, inviolate, clean, inspirational, religious, numinous, ineffable, sacred, inviolable, sacrosanct, sublime, reverend, spiritual, unobjectionable, quasi-religious, unutterable, unnameable, sacral, reverent

3. profane, unconsecrated, unsanctifiedadjective

   not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled

   Synonyms:
   unconsecrated, blasphemous, blue, unsanctified, secular, sacrilegious

   Antonyms:
   ineffable, quasi-religious, unutterable, reverent, spiritual, inviolable, sacrosanct, clean, sacred, unnameable, inviolate, tabu, religious, taboo, sacral, unobjectionable, reverend, holy, unspeakable, sublime, divine, numinous, inspirational

4. blasphemous, profane, sacrilegiousverb

   grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred

   "blasphemous rites of a witches' Sabbath"; "profane utterances against the Church"; "it is sacrilegious to enter with shoes on"

   Synonyms:
   unconsecrated, blasphemous, blue, secular, unsanctified, sacrilegious

   Antonyms:
   quasi-religious, clean, ineffable, divine, spiritual, reverend, sacred, reverent, taboo, unspeakable, inviolable, unobjectionable, sacrosanct, religious, tabu, holy, numinous, inviolate, sublime, sacral, inspirational, unnameable, unutterable

5. corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirectverb

   corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality

   "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"

   Synonyms:
   subvert, bring down, mislead, overthrow, alloy, misguide, twist, impair, misaddress, abuse, deflower, demoralise, cloud, misdirect, weaken, get down, debase, counteract, demoralize, sully, convolute, vitiate, deject, lead astray, defile, desecrate, sophisticate, sabotage, load, countermine, mar, taint, overturn, stretch, invalidate, deprave, adulterate, dilute, twist around, undermine, buy, violate, grease one's palms, outrage, cast down, void, dispirit, depress, bribe, misuse, pervert, dismay, debauch, spoil, corrupt

   Antonyms:
   tabu, ineffable, reverend, sublime, inviolable, sacral, holy, numinous, inviolate, unspeakable, sacred, unnameable, divine, taboo, reverent, sacrosanct, quasi-religious, spiritual, unutterable, religious, unobjectionable, inspirational, clean

6. desecrate, profane, outrage, violateverb

   violate the sacred character of a place or language

   "desecrate a cemetery"; "violate the sanctity of the church"; "profane the name of God"

   Synonyms:
   dishonour, scandalise, offend, ravish, scandalize, dishonor, plunder, demoralise, deconsecrate, misdirect, desecrate, debase, pervert, demoralize, transgress, appal, break, despoil, subvert, vitiate, deprave, breach, rape, violate, infract, shock, appall, outrage, unhallow, assault, go against, debauch, spoil, corrupt

   Antonyms:
   sacral, sacrosanct, quasi-religious, ineffable, tabu, unspeakable, holy, unutterable, sublime, clean, numinous, unnameable, sacred, inviolate, reverent, unobjectionable, religious, inspirational, reverend, divine, taboo, spiritual, inviolable

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1. profaneadjective

   Synonyms:
   irreverent, irreligious, blasphemous, wicked, sacrilegious, impious

2. profaneadjective

   Synonyms:
   unhallowed, impure, polluted

3. profaneadjective

   Synonyms:
   secular, not sacred

4. profaneverb

   Synonyms:
   desecrate, pollute, defile, abuse

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1. profaneadjective

   Synonyms:
   unconsecrated, secular, unsanctified, unholy, blasphemous, irreverent, impious, sacrilegious

2. profaneverb

   Synonyms:
   violate, desecrate, debase, prostitute, defile

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1. List of paraphrases for "profane":

   desecrate

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1. Bill Clinton:

   She and other people who have gone online to defend Hillary and explain -- just explain -- why they supported her have been subject to vicious trolling and attacks that are literally too profane often -- not to mention sexist -- to repeat.

2. Henry Van Dyke:

   Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

3. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.

4. Bill Clinton:

   People who have gone online to defend Hillary and explain why they supported her, have been subject to attacks that are literally too profane often, not to mention sexist, to repeat.

5. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer:

   Which isn't a lot. But this primary is just getting started.Both of these things can't be trueTrump's main pitch for reelection is the economy and, while it hasn't lived up to his 2016 campaign promises, he put forward an extremely rosy outlook in his annual budget proposal, released Monday.Just as an example, read from CNN's story about the predicted deficits in Trump's budget compared to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.Both of these things cannot be true:CBO says budget will grow -- The deficit -- the gap between how much the government spends versus how much it takes in -- surpassed $1 trillion for the calendar year in 2019, marking the first time since 2012.That number is only expected to widen even further over the coming decade, reaching a total of $1.7 trillion in 2030, according to the latest projections by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released in late January.White House says budget will shrink -- That's a sharp contrast to the White House's latest blueprint, which projects that the deficit will shrink to $261 billion by 2030. The President's budget assumes that the economy will grow at around 3% annually during that period of time helping to narrow the gap. Those estimates are significantly higher than what most economists anticipated along with the Federal Reserve.Bonus: Read CNN reporter Donna Borak's piece on the White House plan for more tax cuts despite the deficits.Impeachment falloutGiuliani has a channel to Barr -- Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Rudy Giuliani is giving information regarding his Ukraine conspiracy theories to Attorney General William Barr through some sort of special channel Barr has set up. This is not surprising since Trump clearly lumps his lawyer and the attorney general together. He asked Ukraine's President to be in touch with both of them. But a back channel to the DOJ? This is, um, not how things are supposed to work, writes Elie Honig.Trump weaponizes the presidency -- Read this from Stephen Collinson: (Trump) is completing his project of fashioning the office around his own personality. It's unrestrained, unaccountable, often profane, impervious to outside influence and factual constraints of normal governance. The President has established dominance over his party, his Cabinet and his own media complex. He loosened Congress's constraints by refusing to cooperate with the impeachment probe. The result is that there are very few political constraints on his behavior left.