Usually means: Disrespectful or irreverent toward sacred.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. profane: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. profane: Merriam-Webster
  3. profane: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. profane: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. profane: Collins English Dictionary
  6. profane: Vocabulary.com
  7. Profane, profane: Wordnik
  8. profane: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. profane: Wiktionary
  10. profane: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. profane: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. profane: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Profane, profane: Dictionary.com
  14. profane (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. profane: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Profane: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Profane: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. profane: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. profane: Rhymezone
  20. profane, profane: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. profane: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. profane: FreeDictionary.org
  23. profane: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. profane: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. profane: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. profane: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. PROFANE: Masonic Dictionary

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  2. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. profane: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See profaned as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (profane)

▸ adjective:  Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.
▸ adjective:  Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.
▸ adjective:  Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or scorn; blasphemous, impious.
▸ adjective:  Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain.
▸ noun:  A person or thing that is profane.
▸ noun:  (Freemasonry) A person not a Mason.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To violate (something sacred); to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate
▸ verb:  (transitive) To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to debase; to abuse; to defile.

Similar:
profanatory, debauch, desecrate, vitiate, deprave, corrupt, debase, demoralize, sacrilegious, outrage, more...

Opposite:
sacred, holy, reverent

Phrases:
profane language, legends, literary or profane, legends literary or profane, literary or profane legends, Sacred and Profane Love, more...

Adjectives:
more, sacred, little, open, holy, lewd, utter, vulgar, hallowed, somewhat, wellnigh

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Similar:
profanatory, debauch, desecrate, vitiate, deprave, corrupt, debase, demoralize, sacrilegious, outrage, more...

Opposite:
sacred, holy, reverent

Phrases:
profane language, legends, literary or profane, legends literary or profane, literary or profane legends, Sacred and Profane Love, The Profane Exhibit, Sacred and Profane, opposite of profane, more...

Adjectives:
more, sacred, little, open, holy, lewd, utter, vulgar, hallowed, somewhat, wellnigh

Colors:
    black,     red,     dark purple,     blood red,     charcoal, more...



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