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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immoral, crude, disrespectful of religion |
| Synonyms: | abusive, atheistic, blasphemous, coarse, dirty*, filthy*, foul, godless, heathen, idolatrous, impious, impure, indecent, infidel, irreligious, irreverent, irreverential, mundane, nasty, obscene, pagan, profanatory, raunchy, sacrilegious, sinful, smutty, temporal, transient, transitory, unconsecrated, ungodly, unhallowed, unholy, unsanctified, vulgar, wicked, worldly |
| Antonyms: | clean, moral, sacred |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | blasphemous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irreverent |
| Synonyms: | cursing, disrespectful, godless, impious, insulting, irreligious, profanatory, profane, sacrilegious, swearing, ungodly |
| Antonyms: | godly, pious, religious, respectful, reverent |
| Main Entry: | contaminate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | adulterate |
| Synonyms: | alloy, befoul, corrupt, debase, debauch, defile, deprave, desecrate, dirty, harm, infect, injure, muck up, pervert, poison, pollute, profane, radioactivate, soil, spoil, stain, sully, taint, tarnish, vitiate |
| Antonyms: | clean, cure, heal, purify, sterilize |
| Main Entry: | defile |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | corrupt, violate |
| Synonyms: | abuse, adulterate, befoul, besmirch, contaminate, debase, deflower, degrade, desecrate, dirty, discolor, disgrace, dishonor, hurt, maculate, make foul, mess up*, molest, muck up, pollute, profane, rape, ravish, scuzz up, seduce, shame, smear, soil, stain, sully, taint, tar, tarnish, trash, vitiate |
| Antonyms: | clean, clease, hallow, honor, purify, sanctify |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | desecrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | abuse, violate |
| Synonyms: | befoul, blaspheme, commit sacrilege, contaminate, defile, depredate, desolate, despoil, devastate, devour, dishonor, make lose face, mess up*, pervert, pillage, pollute, profane, prostitute, ravage, sack, spoil, spoliate, waste |
| Antonyms: | honor, praise, sanctify |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | earthly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | physically concerning land or its inhabitants |
| Synonyms: | alluvial, carnal, corporeal, geotic, global, human, in all creation, material, mortal, mundane, nonspiritual, physical, profane, secular, subastral, sublunary, tellurian, telluric, temporal, terraqueous, terrene, terrestrial, uncelestial, under the sun, unspiritual, worldly |
| Notes: | earthy is 'similar to earth; hearty' or 'coarse, vulgar' while earthly is 'pertaining to human existence on earth'; earthen means 'made of earth or clay' |
| Antonyms: | heavenly, immaterial, spiritual, unearthly |
| Main Entry: | fleshly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lecherous, desiring sex |
| Synonyms: | animal, animalistic, bodily, carnal, erotic, gross, lascivious, lewd, lustful, profane, sensual, venereal, voluptuous |
| Antonyms: | immaterial, religious, spiritual |
| Main Entry: | foul |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vulgar, offensive |
| Synonyms: | abusive, blasphemous, blue*, coarse, dirty, filthy, foul-mouthed, gross*, indecent, lewd, low, nasty, obscene, profane, raunchy, scatological, scurrilous, smutty |
| Antonyms: | clean, innocent, inoffensive, moral |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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