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| Main Entry: | profanity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foul language |
| Synonyms: | abuse, blasphemy, curse, dirty word*, execration, four-letter word*, impiety, imprecation, irreverence, malediction, obscenity, sacrilege, swearing, taboo, cursing, cuss, cuss word, dirty language, dirty name, no-no, profaneness, swearword |
| Antonyms: | clean language |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | blasphemy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | irreverence |
| Synonyms: | abuse, desecration, execration, heresy, impiety, imprecation, indignity, lewdness, profanity, sacrilege, swearing, vituperation, cursing, cussing, impiousness, profanation, profaneness, reviling, scoffing, scurrility |
| Antonyms: | godliness, piety, religion, reverence, religiousness |
| Main Entry: | execration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hating |
| Synonyms: | abhorrence, abomination, anathema, blasphemy, condemnation, contempt, curse, damnation, denunciation, detestation, hatred, imprecation, loathing, malediction, odium, profanity, swearing, cursing, cussing, detesting, excoriation, vilification |
| Antonyms: | liking, loving |
| Main Entry: | irreverence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disrespect |
| Synonyms: | blasphemy, cheek, derision, discourtesy, flippancy, heresy, impertinence, impiety, impudence, insult, mockery, profanity, ridicule, rudeness, sin, sauciness, sinfulness |
| Antonyms: | regard, respect, reverence |
| Main Entry: | obscenity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indecency, immorality; vulgarism |
| Synonyms: | abomination, affront, atrocity, blight, coarseness, curse, dirty word*, evil, four-letter word*, impropriety, impurity, indecency, lewdness, offense, outrage, pornography, profanity, smut*, vulgarity, wrong, X-rating, bawdiness, blueness, dirtiness, dirty name, filthiness, foulness, immodesty, indelicacy, licentiousness, lubricity, porn, prurience, salacity, scatology, scurrility, sleaze, smuttiness, suggestiveness, swearword, vileness |
| Antonyms: | decency, innocence, morality, propriety, purity, uprightness, cleanness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sacrilege |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | irreverence |
| Synonyms: | blasphemy, crime, curse, desecration, heresy, impiety, mockery, offense, profanity, sin, violation, profanation, profaneness |
| Antonyms: | piety, respect, reverence |
| Main Entry: | swearing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foul language |
| Synonyms: | blasphemy, dirty word*, execration, four-letter word*, imprecation, malediction, profanity, bad language, cursing, cuss, cussing, dirty language, dirty name, dirty talk, expletives, no-no, swearword |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dirty word |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indecent or vulgar word |
| Synonyms: | curse, expletive, four-letter word, oath, obscenity, profanity, swear word, vulgarity, bad word, cuss, cuss word, dirty name, foul invective, naughty word, profane oath |
| Main Entry: | four-letter word |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obscene word |
| Synonyms: | curse, dirty word, expletive, oath, obscenity, profanity, swear, vulgarity, bad word, cuss, cuss word, naughty word, profane oath, swearword |
| Main Entry: | swear word |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foul word |
| Synonyms: | bad language, bad word, curse, cursing, cuss word, cussing, dirty word, expletive, filthy language, filthy word, foul language, four-letter word, malediction, naughty word, oath, obscenity, profanity, swear, swearing, swearword, tinker's cuss, vulgar language |
| Main Entry: | vulgarity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coarseness |
| Synonyms: | discourtesy, indecency, lewdness, obscenity, profanity, rudeness, crassness, crudity, filthiness, foulness, grossness, profaneness |
| Main Entry: | curse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hateful, swearing remark |
| Synonyms: | anathema, ban, bane, blasphemy, commination, damning, denunciation, dirty word*, double whammy, execration, expletive, four-letter word*, fulmination, imprecation, malediction, oath, obloquy, obscenity, profanity, sacrilege, swear word, swearing, whammy*, blaspheming, cursing, cuss word, cussing, dirty name, malison, naughty words, no-no, objuration, profanation, vilification |
| Antonyms: | compliment, praise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | impiety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ungodliness |
| Synonyms: | blasphemy, heresy, irreverence, profanity, godlessness |
| Main Entry: | oath |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | curse |
| Synonyms: | blasphemy, dirty word*, expletive, four-letter word*, imprecation, malediction, profanity, cuss, cuss word, dirty name, no-no, strong language, swearword |
| Antonyms: | kindness, pleasantry |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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