1. Not concerned with or devoted to religion
   "sacred and profane music"; "children being brought up in an entirely profane environment";
   - secular
    
2. Not holy because unconsecrated, impure or defiled
   "The profane chapel awaited the bishop's blessing";
   - unconsecrated, unsanctified
    
3. Grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred
   "profane utterances against the Church";
   - blasphemous, sacrilegious
    
4. Characterized by profanity or cursing
   "profane words";
   - blasphemous, blue [informal]

1. Disregard the sacred character of a place or language
   "profane the name of God";
   - desecrate, violate, defile
    
2. Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
   "The scandal profaned the organization's reputation";
   - corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise [Brit], debauch, debase, vitiate, deprave, misdirect

Derived forms: profaned, profanes, profaning

See also: dirty, earthly, impious, irreverent, laic, lay, profanatory, secular, temporal, unhallowed, unholy, worldly

Type of: alter, assail, assault, attack, change, modify, set on

Antonym: sacred

Encyclopedia: Profane