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impious a. 无信仰的,不敬神的,不虔诚的,不孝的 无信仰的,不敬神的,不虔诚的,不孝的 impious adj 1: lacking piety or reverence for a god [ ant: { pious}] 2: lacking due respect or dutifulness; " impious toward one' s parents"; " an undutiful son" [ synonym: { impious}, { undutiful}] Impious \ Im" pi* ous\, a. [ L. impius; pref. im- not pius piou. See { Pious}.] Not pious; wanting piety; irreligious; irreverent; ungodly; profane; wanting in reverence for the Supreme Being; as, an impious deed; impious language. [ 1913 Webster] When vice prevails, and impious men bear away, The post of honor is a private station. -- Addison. Syn: { Impious}, { Irreligious}, { Profane}. Usage: Irreligious is negative, impious and profane are positive. An indifferent man may be irreligious; a profane man is irreverent in speech and conduct; an impious man is wickedly and boldly defiant in the strongest sense. Profane also has the milder sense of secular. -- C. J. Smith. -- { Im" pi* ous* ly}, adv. -- { Im" pi* ous* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 60 Moby Thesaurus words for " impious": apostate, arch, atheistic, backsliding, blasphemous, casual, coltish, contrary, devil- may- care, disobedient, elvish, fallen, fallen from grace, flippant, free and easy, fresh, frolicsome, froward, giddy, godless, iconoclastic, impish, iniquitous, irreligious, irreverent, lapsed, mischievous, offhand, pert, perverse, pixieish, profanatory, profane, puckish, recidivist, recidivistic, recreant, renegade, roguish, sacrilegious, saucy, scandalous, sinful, sportive, un- Christly, unangelic, unchristian, undevout, unduteous, undutiful, unfaithful, ungodly, unhallowed, unholy, unrighteous, unsaintly, waggish, wayward, wicked, wrongheaded
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