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Definition of Impious
1. Adjective. Lacking piety or reverence for a god.
Similar to: Godless, Irreverent
Also: Irreligious, Profane, Secular, Wicked
Derivative terms: Impiousness
Antonyms: Pious
2. Adjective. Lacking due respect or dutifulness. "An undutiful son"
Definition of Impious
1. a. Not pious; wanting piety; irreligious; irreverent; ungodly; profane; wanting in reverence for the Supreme Being; as, an impious deed; impious language.
Definition of Impious
1. Adjective. not pious ¹
2. Adjective. lacking reverence or respect, especially towards a god ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Impious
1. not pious [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impious
Literary usage of Impious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire (1843)
"impious. If he should even paint that great and incomprehensible being as carried on
... WHO is the impious man ? It is he who exhibits the Being of Beings, ..."
2. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin (1921)
"3D VSt.5 THE AGENCY OF THE impious, AND INCLINES ... that Satan and all the
impious are subject to the power and government of God, so that he directs their ..."
3. The Republic of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1881)
"ugly, the pious impious, the just unjust? Is not the double also the half, and
are not heavy and light relative terms which pass into one another? ..."
4. The History of Ancient Greece: Its Colonies and Conquests, from the Earliest by John Gillies (1843)
"... вате to call the Athenians profane and impious'. The artful Locrian, affecting
a religious zeal not less ardent than the patriotism of ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"... invented the impious and extravagant hypothesis, that, instead of issuing from
the womb of the Virgin,*7 he had descended on the banks of the Jordan in ..."
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