Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for profane
Synonyms for profane: secular, corrupt and sacrilegious. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for profane
Interchangeable with profane in this sense
Audited under profane's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one profane carries in that sense.
- secularadjective, in the sense "not concerned with or devoted to religion"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name profane as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- corruptcorrupt is a verb in the sense "corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality"
- sacrilegioussacrilegious is an adjective in the sense "grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred"
The first group is filed under profane's own sense. The second reach profane from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside them is that word's.
not concerned with or devoted to religion
Sacred and profane music.
The true synonym
secular
Same sentence, swapped: Sacred and secular music.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot profane is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- sacrilegious
- blue
- ungodly
Where profane turns up in the game
profane is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play profane
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so profane reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other thinking and knowing words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. profane carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.