| Main Entry: | profanation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sacrilege |
Synonyms: |
blasphemy, crime, curse, desecration, heresy, impiety, mockery, offense, profaneness, profanity, sin, violation |
| Main Entry: | blasphemy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | irreverence |
Synonyms: |
abuse, cursing, cussing, desecration, execration, heresy, impiety, impiousness, imprecation, indignity, lewdness, profanation, profaneness, profanity, reviling, sacrilege, scoffing, scurrility, swearing, vituperation |
Antonyms: |
godliness, piety, religion, religiousness, reverence |
| Main Entry: | curse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hateful, swearing remark |
Synonyms: |
anathema, ban, bane, blaspheming, blasphemy, commination, cursing, cuss word, cussing, damning, denunciation, dirty name, dirty word, double whammy, execration, expletive, four-letter word, fulmination, imprecation, malediction, malison, naughty words, no-no, oath, objuration, obloquy, obscenity, profanation, profanity, sacrilege, swear word, swearing, vilification, whammy |
Antonyms: |
compliment, praise |
| Main Entry: | desecration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | violation, abuse |
Synonyms: |
blasphemy, debasement, defilement, impiety, irreverence, profanation, sacrilege |
Antonyms: |
honor, praise, sanctification |
| Main Entry: | misuse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abuse; wrong application |
Synonyms: |
abusage, barbarism, catachresis, corruption, cruel treatment, desecration, dissipation, exploitation, harm, ill-treatment, injury, malapropism, maltreatment, misapplication, misemployment, mistreatment, misusage, perversion, profanation, prostitution, rough handling, solecism, squandering, waste |
| Notes: | abuse carries with it some sense of harm; misuse refers to an incorrect use that may not lead to harm to misuse is to use something wrongly, to abuse is to misuse something so badly that you damage it |
| Main Entry: | outrage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | atrocity, evil |
Synonyms: |
abuse, affront, barbarism, damage, desecration, enormity, evildoing, harm, hurt, indignity, inhumanity, injury, insult, mischief, misdoing, offense, profanation, rape, rapine, ravishing, ruin, shock, violation, violence, wrongdoing |
Antonyms: |
delight, happiness |
| Main Entry: | pollution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dirtiness, contamination |
Synonyms: |
abuse, adulteration, besmearing, besmirching, blight, corruption, decomposition, defilement, desecration, deterioration, dirtying, fouling, foulness, greenhouse effect, impairment, impurity, infection, misuse, polluting, profanation, rottenness, soiling, spoliation, taint, tainting, uncleanness, vitiation |
Antonyms: |
cleanliness, purification |
| Main Entry: | sacrilege |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | irreverence |
Synonyms: |
blasphemy, crime, curse, desecration, heresy, impiety, mockery, offense, profanation, profaneness, profanity, sin, violation |
Antonyms: |
piety, respect, reverence |
| Main Entry: | violation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rape, defilement |
Synonyms: |
assault, blasphemy, debasement, defacement, defacing, degradation, desecration, destruction, devastation, dishonor, invasion, mistreatment, outrage, pollution, profanation, rapine, ravishment, ruin, sacrilege, spoliation |
| Main Entry: | discourtesy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disrespect |
Synonyms: |
brusqueness, contumely, impoliteness, incivility, inurbanity, profanation, rudeness |
Antonyms: |
courtesy, politeness |