blasphemous
/ˈblasfəməs
/adjective
Sacrilegious against God or sacred things; profane: blasphemous and heretical talk...
- I suspect that it is probably sacrilegious or even blasphemous to suggest such a thing.
- I believe that they should bail out of a blasphemous and unholy organization that is going down, hard.
- Already they are blaspheming and doing blasphemous things against the church.
Synonyms
sacrilegious, profane, irreligious, irreverent, impious, ungodly, godless, unholy, disrespectful
archaic execratory, execrative
rare imprecatory
Derivatives
blasphemously
/ adverb ...- Is this a comment on religious relics and iconography, or is she blasphemously raising her work to the level of the sacred?
- I got to my feet and stalked into the graveyard, blasphemously passing over old graves and fake flower arrangements.
- He wants to promulgate an extreme form of the religion he blasphemously claims to represent.
Origin
Late Middle English: via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek blasphēmos 'evil-speaking' + -ous.