About The Word Impious
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Impious
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What's The Definition Of Impious?
[adj] lacking piety or reverence for a god
[adj] lacking piety and reverence for a god [adj] lacking due respect or dutifulness; "impious toward one's parents"; "an undutiful son" Synonyms | Synonyms for Impious: disrespectful | godless | irreverent | undutiful | ungodly Related Terms | Find terms related to Impious: apostate | arch | atheistic | backsliding | blasphemous | casual | coltish | contrary | devil-may-care | disobedient | elvish | fallen | fallen from grace | flippant | free and easy | fresh | frolicsome | froward | giddy | godless | iconoclastic | impish | iniquitous | irreligious | irreverent | lapsed | mischievous | offhand | pert | perverse | pixieish | profanatory | profane | puckish | recidivist | recidivistic | recreant | renegade | roguish | sacrilegious | saucy | scandalous | sinful | sportive | unangelic | unchristian | un-Christly | undevout | unduteous | undutiful | unfaithful | ungodly | unhallowed | unholy | unrighteous | unsaintly | waggish | wayward | wicked | wrongheaded See Also | irreligious | profane | wicked Impious In Webster's Dictionary \Im"pi*ous\, a. [L. impius; pref. im- not + pius piou.
See {Pious}.]
Not pious; wanting piety; irreligious; irreverent; ungodly;
profane; wanting in reverence for the Supreme Being; as, an
impious deed; impious language.
When vice prevails, and impious men bear away, The post
of honor is a private station. --Addison.
Syn: {Impious}, {Irreligious}, {Profane}.
Usage: Irreligious is negative, impious and profane are
positive. An indifferent man may be irreligious; a
profane man is irreverent in speech and conduct; an
impious man is wickedly and boldly defiant in the
strongest sense. Profane also has the milder sense of
secular. --C. J. Smith. -- {Im"pi*ous*ly}, adv. --
{Im"pi*ous*ness}, n.
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