About The Word Blasphemous
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Blasphemous
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What's The Definition Of Blasphemous?
[adj] characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words"
[adj] 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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Blasphemous: blue | dirty | irreverent | profane | sacrilegious Related Terms | Find terms related to Blasphemous: 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 | Rabelaisian | raw | recidivist | recidivistic | recreant | renegade | ribald | risque | sacrilegious | scatologic | scurrile | scurrilous | sinful | undutiful | vile | vituperative | wicked See Also | Blasphemous In Webster's Dictionary \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.
Nor from the Holy One of Heaven Refrained his tongue
blasphemous. --Milton.
Note: Formerly this word was accented on the second syllable,
as in the above example.
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