Impious
['ɪmpɪəs;ɪm'paɪəs] or ['ɪmpɪəs]
Definition
(adj.) lacking piety or reverence for a god .
(adj.) lacking due respect or dutifulness; 'impious toward one's parents'; 'an undutiful son' .
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Definition
(a.) 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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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Irreverent, ungodly, irreligious, blasphemous, wicked, sinful, unrighteous, unholy, iniquitous, profane.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Profane, irreverent, godless, wicked, blasphemous
ANT:Reverent, pious, godly, devout, reverential
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Definition
adj. irreverent; wanting in veneration for God: profane.—adv. Im′piously.—ns. Im′piousness Impī′ety.
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Examples
- Such a fiction is suicidal, ruinous, impious. Plato. The Republic.
- Impious and false things has he said even of the virtues of our medicines, as if they were the devices of Satan--The Lord rebuke him! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- And when I speak thus I have no impression that I displease God by my words; that I am either impious or impatient, irreligious or sacrilegious. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- These questions were considered by all the curates as, to the last degree, audacious and impious. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- By 1782 there were as many as four hundred lightning rods in use in Philadelphia alone, though some conservative people regarded their employment as impious. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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