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say it: proh-FAYN
profane is an adjective and verb meaning "characterized by profanity or cursing". It carries 6 recorded senses.
characterized by profanity or cursing
“foul-mouthed and blasphemous”
“blue language”
“profane words”
not concerned with or devoted to religion
“sacred and profane music”
“secular drama”
“secular architecture”
“children being brought up in an entirely profane environment”
not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled
grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred
“blasphemous rites of a witches' Sabbath”
“profane utterances against the Church”
“it is sacrilegious to enter with shoes on”
corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
“debauch the young people with wine and women”
“Socrates was accused of corrupting young men”
“Do school counselors subvert young children?”
“corrupt the morals”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for profane 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.