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Impious

Impious Definition And Meaning
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"pious\, 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"piously}, adv. -- {Im"pious*ness}, n.

Impious Definition And Meaning

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"

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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