impious

What does impious mean?

impious means "lacking piety or reverence for a god". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in impious?

impious has 3 syllables: im-pi-ous. The stress falls on "pi". In IPA it is /ˌɪmˈpaɪəs/.

What is another word for impious?

Close synonyms include undutiful. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of impious?

The recorded antonyms are pious.

Is impious a common word?

impious is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with impious?

1 word rhymes with impious. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for impious come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.