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| Main Entry: |
impious
 [im-pee-uhs, im-pahy-] 
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not religious |
| Synonyms: | agnostic, apostate, atheistic, blasphemous, canting, contrary, deceitful, defiling, desecrating, desecrative, diabolic, disobedient, disrespectful, godless, hardened, hypocritical, iconoclastic, immoral, iniquitous, irreligious, irreverent, perverted, pietistical, profane, recusant, reprobate, sacrilegious, sanctimonious, satanic, scandalous, sinful, unctuous, undutiful, unethical, unfaithful, ungodly, unhallowed, unholy, unregenerate, unrighteous, unsanctified, wayward, wicked |
| Antonyms: | holy, pious, religious |
| Main Entry: | demonic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | evil |
| Synonyms: | aroused, bad, crazed, demoniac, demoniacal, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, fired, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, hellish, impious, infernal, insane, inspired, mad, maniacal, manic, possessed, satanic, serpentine, unhallowed, violent, wicked |
| Antonyms: | angelic, godlike, good, moral |
| Main Entry: | diabolic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | evil, fiendish |
| Synonyms: | Mephistophelian, atrocious, cruel, damnable, demoniac, demonic, devilish, hellish, impious, infernal, monstrous, nasty, nefarious, satanic, serpentine, shocking, unhallowed, unpleasant, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked |
| Antonyms: | gentle, kind, moral, nice |
Example Sentences
- Traitors have raised the impious arm of rebellion against this sacred standard.
- Many of these efforts possess a decidedly impious and trivializing tone.
- Such criticism might be sacrosanct on the business or op-ed page, but on a sports page, it is impious.
| Main Entry: | disrespectful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | insulting, rude |
| Synonyms: | aweless, bad-mannered, blasphemous, bold, cheeky*, contemptuous, discourteous, disgracious, flip*, flippant, fresh, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impertinent, impious, impolite, impudent, insolent, irreverent, misbehaved, nervy, out-of-line, profanatory, profane, sacrilegious, sassy*, saucy*, smart-alecky, snippy, uncivil, unfilial, ungracious |
| Antonyms: | civil, courteous, mannered, mannerly, nice, respectful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hardened |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfeeling |
| Synonyms: | accustomed, benumbed, callous, case-hardened, coldhearted, contemptuous, cruel, disdainful, habituated, hard-as-nails, hard-bitten, hard-boiled, hardhearted, heartless, impenetrable, impious, inaccessible, indurated, inured, irreverent, obdurate, obtuse, prepared, resistant, seasoned, steeled, toughened, unashamed, unbending, uncaring, uncompassionate, unemotional, unrepenting, unsubmissive |
| Antonyms: | compassionate, feeling, kind, nice, sympathetic |
| Main Entry: | heretical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unorthodox |
| Synonyms: | agnostic, apostate, atheistic, differing, disagreeing, dissenting, dissentive, dissident, freethinking, heterodox, iconoclastic, idolatrous, impious, infidel, misbelieving, miscreant, nonconformist, revisionist, schismatic, sectarian, skeptical, unbelieving |
| Antonyms: | orthodox |
| Main Entry: | irreligious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ungodly |
| Synonyms: | agnostic, atheistic, blasphemous, faithless, free-thinking, godless, heathen, iconoclastic, impious, irreverent, pagan, sacrilegious, sinful, unbelieving, undevout, unholy |
| Main Entry: | irreverent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disrespectful |
| Synonyms: | aweless, cheeky*, cocky*, contemptuous, crusty, derisive, flip*, flippant, fresh, iconoclastic, impertinent, impious, impudent, insolent, irreverential, mocking, out-of-line, profane, rude, sacrilegious, sassy*, saucy*, tongue-in-cheek, ungodly, unhallowed, unholy |
| Antonyms: | religious, respectful, reverent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pagan |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irreligious |
| Synonyms: | agnostic, atheistic, heathen, idolatrous, impious, infidel, polytheistic, profane |
| Antonyms: | believing, religious |
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