blasphemous

English

Etymology

From Latin blasphēmus (“blaspheming”), from Ancient Greek βλάσφημος (blásphēmos, “uttering ill-omened words”), equivalent to blaspheme +‎ -ous.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈblæs.fəm.əs/, /ˈblæs.fəm.ʌs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

blasphemous (comparative more blasphemous, superlative most blasphemous)

1. Lacking piety or respect for the sacred. Resembling blasphemy.

   His taking the name of God in vain was considered blasphemous.

Derived terms

• blasphemous libel
• blasphemously
• blasphemousness
• nonblasphemous
• unblasphemous

 

Translations

lacking piety or respect for the sacred

• Armenian: հայհոյական (hy) (hayhoyakan)
• Catalan: blasfem (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 褻瀆神靈／亵渎神灵 (xièdú shénlíng)

• Czech: rouhavý, rouhačský
• Danish: blasfemisk
• Dutch: godslasterlijk (nl)
• Esperanto: malpia
• Faroese: gudsspottandi
• Finnish: rienaava (fi), pilkkaava (fi)
• French: blasphématoire (fr)
• Georgian: მკრეხელური (mḳrexeluri)
• German: blasphemisch (de), gotteslästerlich (de)
• Greek: βλάσφημος (el) (vlásfimos)

  Ancient: βλάσφημος (blásphēmos)

• Hungarian: istenkáromló (hu)
• Irish: blaisféimeach, diamhaslach, dia-aithiseach, naomhaithiseach
• Italian: blasfemo (it)
• Middle English: blasfeme
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: blasfemisk

  Nynorsk: blasfemisk

• Polish: bluźnierczy
• Portuguese: blasfemo (pt)
• Romanian: blasfemator (ro)
• Russian: богоху́льный (ru) (bogoxúlʹnyj), нечести́вый (ru) (nečestívyj), богоху́льственный (ru) (bogoxúlʹstvennyj), святота́тственный (ru) (svjatotátstvennyj), кощу́нственный (ru) (koščúnstvennyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бласфѐмичан, svȅtogr̄dnī

  Roman: blasfèmičan (sh), svȅtogr̄dan (sh)

• Spanish: blasfemo (es)
• Swedish: blasfemisk (sv), hädisk (sv)