Blasphemous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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: {profane}, {sacrilegious}]
       2: characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and
          blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words" [syn: {blue},
           {profane}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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