profanatory

1. 1.

   profaning or tending to desecrate

   Similarprofane

Questions about profanatory

What does profanatory mean?

profanatory means "profaning or tending to desecrate".

How many syllables are in profanatory?

profanatory has 5 syllables: pro-fa-na-to-ry. The stress falls on "na".

Is profanatory a common word?

profanatory is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.