[syn: blasphemous, blue, profane]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Blasphemous \Blas"phe*mous\, a. [L. blasphemus, Gr. ?.]
Speaking or writing blasphemy; uttering or exhibiting
anything impiously irreverent; profane; as, a blasphemous
person; containing blasphemy; as, a blasphemous book; a
blasphemous caricature. "Blasphemous publications."
--Porteus.
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Nor from the Holy One of Heaven
Refrained his tongue blasphemous. --Milton.
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Note: Formerly this word was accented on the second syllable,
as in the above example.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
blasphemous
adj 1: 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" [syn: blasphemous, profane,
sacrilegious]
2: characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and
blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words" [syn:
blasphemous, blue, profane]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
50 Moby Thesaurus words for "blasphemous":
Rabelaisian, abusive, apostate, atheistic, backsliding,
calumniatory, calumnious, comminatory, contumelious, cursing,
damnatory, denunciatory, dirty, disrespectful, dysphemistic,
epithetic, evil, excommunicative, excommunicatory, execratory,
fallen, fallen from grace, foul, fulminatory, impious, imprecatory,
iniquitous, irreligious, irreverent, lapsed, maledictory, obscene,
profanatory, profane, raw, recidivist, recidivistic, recreant,
renegade, ribald, risque, sacrilegious, scatologic, scurrile,
scurrilous, sinful, undutiful, vile, vituperative, wicked