profaani — meaning in English

English meaning

• profane adjective Showing disrespect for sacred or religious things.

Senses

profaani is used for these senses in English:

• profane Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.
• profane Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.
• profane Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or scorn; blasphemous, impious.

profane — full definition

1. adjective Showing disrespect for sacred or religious things.
2. adjective Relating to ordinary, non-religious life rather than the sacred.
3. verb To treat something sacred with disrespect; to desecrate.

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