impious

English

Etymology

From Latin impius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪmpi.əs/, /ɪmˈpaɪəs/

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Adjective

impious (comparative more impious, superlative most impious)

1. Not pious.
2. Lacking reverence or respect, especially towards a god.
   • 1928 February, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume 11, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Pub. Co., →OCLC, pages 159–178 and 287:

     […] surfaces too great to belong to anything right or proper for this earth, and impious with horrible images and hieroglyphs.

Synonyms

• irreverent
• ungodly
• unholy

Antonyms

• pious

Derived terms

• impiously
• impiousness

Related terms

• impiety

Translations

not pious

• Bulgarian: нечестив (bg) (nečestiv)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無信仰的／无信仰的 (wúxìnyǎng de), 不虔誠／不虔诚 (bù qiánchéng)

• Czech: bezbožný (cs)
• Esperanto: malpia
• Finnish: jumalaton (fi)
• French: impie (fr)
• German: pietätlos (de)
• Indonesian: keparat (id)
• Irish: aindiaga, éagráifeach
• Japanese: 不信心な (ja) (ふしんじんな, fushinjin na)
• Latin: nefastus, impius
• Lithuanian: bedieviškas
• Portuguese: ímpio (pt)
• Russian: нечести́вый (ru) (nečestívyj), безбо́жный (ru) (bezbóžnyj)
• Spanish: impío (es)
• Swedish: ogudaktig, gudlös (sv)

lacking reverence or respect, especially towards a god

• Bulgarian: безбожен (bg) (bezbožen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不恭 (zh) (bùgōng), 不敬 (zh) (bùjìng)

• Finnish: jumalaton (fi)
• French: impie (fr)
• German: pietätlos (de)
• Gothic: 𐌰𐍆𐌲𐌿𐌸𐍃 (afguþs)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἄθεος (átheos)

• Indonesian: durhaka (id)
• Irish: aindiaga, éagráifeach
• Japanese: 不敬な (ja) (ふけいな, fukei na)
• Latin: impius
• Lithuanian: nepagarbus
• Portuguese: ímpio (pt)
• Russian: нечести́вый (ru) (nečestívyj), безбо́жный (ru) (bezbóžnyj), непочти́тельный (ru) (nepočtítelʹnyj) (disrespectful)