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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred;
- Example: "blasphemous rites of a witches' Sabbath"
- Example: "profane utterances against the Church"
- Example: "it is sacrilegious to enter with shoes on"
[syn: blasphemous, profane, sacrilegious]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sacrilegious \Sac`ri*le"gious\, a. [From sacrilege: cf. L. sacrilegus.] Violating sacred things; polluted with sacrilege; involving sacrilege; profane; impious. [1913 Webster] Above the reach of sacrilegious hands. --Pope. [1913 Webster] -- Sac`ri*le"gious*ly, adv. -- Sac`ri*le"gious*ness, n. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sacrilegious 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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

57 Moby Thesaurus words for "sacrilegious": aberrant, abnormal, abominable, apostate, atheistic, atrocious, backsliding, blasphemous, criminal, delinquent, deviant, disgraceful, disrespectful, evil, fallen, fallen from grace, hardly the thing, heretical, ignominious, illegal, impious, improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecorous, infamous, irreligious, irreverent, lapsed, not done, not the thing, off-base, off-color, out-of-line, profanatory, profane, recidivist, recidivistic, recreant, renegade, scandalous, shameful, shameless, sinful, terrible, undue, undutiful, unfit, unfitting, ungodly, unlawful, unrighteous, unseemly, unsuitable, wicked, wrong, wrongful