sacrilegious

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsblasphemousprofane

   Similarirreverent

Questions about sacrilegious

What does sacrilegious mean?

sacrilegious means "grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred".

How many syllables are in sacrilegious?

sacrilegious has 4 syllables: sac-ri-leg-ious. The stress falls on "leg". In IPA it is /ˌsækɹəˈlɛdʒɪs/.

What is another word for sacrilegious?

Close synonyms include blasphemous, profane. 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.

Is sacrilegious a common word?

sacrilegious 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.