Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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profane

/pɹəˈfeɪn/ adjective, noun, verb

Forms profaner profanest profanes profaning profaned prophane

  1. adjective Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.
  2. adjective Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular. “profane authors”
  3. adjective Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or scorn; blasphemous, impious.
  4. adjective Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain. “a profane person, word, oath, or tongue”
  5. noun A person or thing that is profane.
  6. noun (Freemasonry) A person not a Mason.
  7. verb (transitive) To violate (something sacred); to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate “One should not profane the name of God.”
  8. verb (transitive) To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to debase; to abuse; to defile.

Synonyms

defiled mishallowed unhallowed common impious impure unholy secular unsanctified irreligious temporal worldly ungodly godless areligious civil earthly laicist laicistic mundane corrupt pervert subvert demoralize demoralise debauch debase vitiate deprave misdirect

Antonyms

faithful holy orthodox religious sacred sacrosanct spiritual consecrate sanctify

Etymology

From Middle English prophane, from Middle French profane, prophaine, prophane and its etymon Classical Latin profānus (“not religious, unclean”) (also Late Latin prophānus), from pro- (“instead of”) + fānum (“temple”).

From Middle English prophanen, from Middle French profaner, prophaner and its etymon Classical Latin profānō (also Late Latin prophāno), from profānus + -ō (suffix forming verbs).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; --opposed to sacred, religious, or inspired; as, a profane place.
  2. adjective Unclean; impure; polluted; unholy.
  3. verb To violate, as anything sacred; to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate; to pollute; as, to profane the name of God; to profane the Scriptures, or the ordinance of God.
  4. verb To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to make a base employment of; to debase; to abuse; to defile.

Etymology [F., fr. L. profanus, properly, before the temple, i. e., without the temple, unholy; pro before + fanum temple. See 1st Fane.]

Etymology [L. profanare: cf. F. profaner. See Profane, a.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “profane”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “profane” (best matches first).

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