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Adjective profane has 4 senses
- blasphemous, blue, profane - characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words"
Antonyms: clean, unobjectionable (indirect, via dirty)
- profane - not sacred or concerned with religion; "sacred and profane music"; "children being brought up in an entirely profane environment"
Antonyms: sacred, ineffable, unnameable, unspeakable, unutterable, inspirational, inviolable, inviolate, sacrosanct, numinous, religious, spiritual, revered, reverenced, reverend, sublime, venerated, sacral, taboo, tabu, divine, quasi-religious
- profane, unconsecrated, unsanctified - not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled
Antonym: holy (indirect, via unholy)
- blasphemous, profane, sacrilegious - 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"
Antonym: reverent (indirect, via irreverent)
Verb profane has 2 senses
- corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect - corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"
--1 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- desecrate, profane, outrage, violate - violate the sacred character of a place or language; "desecrate a cemetary"; "violate the sanctity of the church"; "profane the name of God"
--2 is one way to assail, assault, set on, attack
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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