blasphemous
Mocking the sacred
Blasphemous describes speech or acts that show contempt for God or sacred things: a blasphemous remark, blasphemous imagery.
The term belongs primarily to religious contexts, where it carries serious weight.
More loosely, blasphemous can mean deeply offensive to cherished beliefs or institutions: To some fans, trading the star player was blasphemous.
Violation of the hallowed
- profaneIrreverent toward the sacred
- desecrationViolating something sacred
- hereticalContrary to accepted doctrine
- unholyWicked, impious, sinful
impious · godless · profanation · defilement · apostasy · heresy · sinful · ungodly
Scornfully imitating or ridiculing
- scoffingMocking with contempt
- disrespectfulShowing lack of regard
- contemptuousShowing open disrespect
- derisiveExpressing contemptuous ridicule
satirical · iconoclastic · flippant · sardonic · ridiculing · lampooning · parodying · jeering
Causing intense surprise
- outrageousShockingly bad or excessive
- scandalousMorally offensive or shocking
- inflammatoryTending to provoke outrage
- indecentOffensive to accepted standards
obscene · vulgar · insulting · abusive · defamatory · libelous · slanderous · incendiary
sacrilege
Violation of the hallowed
- profaneIrreverent toward the sacred
- desecrationViolating something sacred
- hereticalContrary to accepted doctrine
unholy · impious · godless · profanation · defilement · apostasy · heresy · sinful · ungodly · taboo
mocking
Scornfully imitating or ridiculing
- scoffingMocking with contempt
- disrespectfulShowing lack of regard
- contemptuousShowing open disrespect
derisive · satirical · iconoclastic · flippant · sardonic · ridiculing · lampooning · parodying · jeering · sneering
shocking
Causing intense surprise
- outrageousShockingly bad or excessive
- scandalousMorally offensive or shocking
- inflammatoryTending to provoke outrage
indecent · obscene · vulgar · insulting · abusive · defamatory · libelous · slanderous · incendiary · provocative
- dissentersdissenter, dissenters, dissidents, dissident, nonconformists
- infernalhellish, demonic, diabolical, satanic, devilish
- religious stancesdevout, pious, faithful, atheist, agnostic
- secularsecular, worldly, temporal, mundane, profane
- LovecraftianCthulhu, Necronomicon, Arkham, cosmic horror, Call of Cthulhu
blasphemousreverent
Feeling profound respect
pious · devout · holy · sacred · worshipful
blasphemousrespectful
Showing proper regard
unobjectionable · inoffensive · appropriate · proper · decent