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. 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 ]
[もったいない, mottainai] (adj-i) (1) (uk) impious; profane; sacrilegious; (2) too good; more than one deserves; unworthy of; (3) wasteful; (P) [Add to Longdo]
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