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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immoral, dishonest |
| Synonyms: | amoral, bad, base, blamable, blameworthy, blasphemous, censurable, corrupt, criminal, crooked, debauched, depraved, dishonorable, dissipated, dissolute, evil, felonious, illegal, illicit, indecent, iniquitous, naughty, profane, profligate, reprehensible, reprobate, risqué, sacrilegious, salacious, shady, sinful, smutty, unethical, unfair, ungodly, unholy, unjust, unlawful, unrighteous, vicious, wanton, wicked, wrongful |
| Antonyms: | decent, good, honest, moral |
| Main Entry: | nonreligious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not religious |
| Synonyms: | profane, secular |
| Antonyms: | religious |
| Main Entry: | scatologic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | obscene |
| Synonyms: | X-rated, atrocious, barnyard, bawdy, blue*, broad, coarse, crude, dirty*, disgusting, evil, filthy, foul, gross*, heinous, hideous, horrible, immodest, improper, impure, lascivious, lewd, licentious, loathsome, loose*, lustful, nasty, noisome, outrageous, porno, pornographic, profane, prurient, rank*, raunchy*, raw, repellent, repugnant, ribald, salacious, scabrous, scatological, scurrilous, shameless, shocking, sickening, smutty, suggestive, unchaste, unclean, unwholesome, vile, vulgar, wanton, wicked |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tellurian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | earthly |
| Synonyms: | alluvial, carnal, corporeal, earthbound, earthen, earthy, geotic, global, human, in all creation, material, mortal, mundane, nonspiritual, physical, profane, secular, subastral, sublunary, telluric, temporal, terraqueous, terrene, terrestrial, uncelestial, under the sun, unspiritual, worldly |
| Main Entry: | telluric |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | earthly |
| Synonyms: | alluvial, carnal, corporeal, earthbound, earthen, earthy, geotic, global, human, in all creation, material, mortal, mundane, nonspiritual, physical, profane, secular, subastral, sublunary, tellurian, temporal, terraqueous, terrene, terrestrial, uncelestial, under the sun, unspiritual, worldly |
| Main Entry: | terrene |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | earthly |
| Synonyms: | alluvial, carnal, corporeal, earthbound, earthen, earthy, geotic, global, human, in all creation, material, mortal, mundane, nonspiritual, physical, profane, secular, subastral, sublunary, tellurian, telluric, temporal, terraqueous, terrestrial, uncelestial, under the sun, unspiritual, worldly |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Concept: | Misuse. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; precursory measures |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
misuse, misusage, misemployment, misapplication, misappropriation., abuse, profanation, prostitution, desecration; waste.
-verbs
-adjectives
misused.
-phrases
ludere cum sacris.
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| Antonyms: | use |
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| Concept: | Wrong. |
| Category: | 1. Moral obligations |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
wrong; what ought not to be, what should not be; malum in se; unreasonableness, grievance; shame., injustice; unfairness; iniquity, foul play, partiality, leaning; favor, favoritism; nepotism, party spirit; undueness; unlawfulness., robbing Peter to pay Paul; the wolf and the lamb; vice., "a custom more honored in the breach than the observance" [Hamlet].
-verbs
be wrong; cry to heaven for vengeance., do wrong; be inequitable; favor, lean towards; encroach upon, impose upon; reap where one has not sown; give an inch and take an ell; rob Peter to pay Paul.
-adjectives
wrong, wrongful; bad, too bad; unjust, unfair; inequitable, unequitable; unequal, partial, one-sided; injurious., objectionable; unreasonable, unallowable, unwarrantable, unjustifiable; improper, unfit; unjustified; illegal; iniquitous; immoral., in the wrong, in the wrong box.
-adverbs
wrongly
-phrases
it will not do.
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| Antonyms: | right |
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