Adjective profane has 4 senses
  1. blasphemous, blue, profane - characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words"
    Antonyms: clean, unobjectionable (indirect, via dirty)
  2. profane - not sacred or concerned with religion; "sacred and profane music"; "children being brought up in an entirely profane environment"
    Antonyms:
    sacred, ineffable, unnameable, unspeakable, unutterable, inspirational, inviolable, inviolate, sacrosanct, numinous, religious, spiritual, revered, reverenced, reverend, sublime, venerated, sacral, taboo, tabu, divine, quasi-religious
  3. profane, unconsecrated, unsanctified - not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled
    Antonym: holy (indirect, via unholy)
  4. blasphemous, profane, sacrilegious - grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred; "blasphemous rites of a witches' Sabbath"; "profane utterances against the Church"; "it is sacrilegious to enter with shoes on"
    Antonym: reverent (indirect, via irreverent)
,Verb profane has 2 senses
  1. corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect - corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"
    --1 is one way to change, alter, modify
    Derived form: noun profanation2
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
  2. desecrate, profane, outrage, violate - violate the sacred character of a place or language; "desecrate a cemetary"; "violate the sanctity of the church"; "profane the name of God"
    --2 is one way to assail, assault, set on, attack
    Derived form: noun profanation1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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