Thesaurus: impious
Not pious; wanting piety; irreligious; irreverent; ungodly; profane; wanting in reverence for the Supreme Being; as, an impious deed; impious language.
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Definitions
- a. Not pious; wanting piety; irreligious; irreverent; ungodly; profane; wanting in reverence for the Supreme Being; as, an impious deed; impious language.
- adj. lacking piety or reverence for a god
- adj. lacking due respect or dutifulness
- 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. 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.
- Not pious; wanting piety; irreligious; irreverent; ungodly;profane; wanting in reverence for the Supreme Being; as, an impiousdeed; impious language.When vice prevails, and impious men bear away, The post of honor is aprivate station. Addison.
- j:100 a. lacking piety or reverence for a god s. lacking due respect or dutifulness