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

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

Derived forms: profaning, profanes, profaned

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