impious : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: impious	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for impious
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
impious adj lacking piety or reverence for a god Antonym(s): pious lacking due respect or dutifulness; "impious toward one's parents"; "an undutiful son" Synonym(s): impious, undutiful
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Impious \Im"pious\, a. [L. impius; pref. im- not + pius piou. See {Pious}.] Not pious; wanting piety; irreligious; irreverent; ungodly; profane; wanting in reverence for the Supreme Being; as, an impious* deed; impious language. When vice prevails, and impious men bear away, The post of honor is a private station. --Addison. Syn: {Impious}, {Irreligious}, {Profane}. Usage: Irreligious is negative, impious and profane are positive. An indifferent man may be irreligious; a profane man is irreverent in speech and conduct; an impious man is wickedly and boldly defiant in the strongest sense. Profane also has the milder sense of secular. --C. J. Smith. -- {Im"piously}, adv. -- {Im"piousness}, n.