The difference between Blessed and Profane

When used as adjectives, blessed means having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing, whereas profane means unclean.


Profane is also noun with the meaning: a person or thing that is profane.

Profane is also verb with the meaning: to violate (something sacred).

check bellow for the other definitions of Blessed and Profane

  1. Blessed as an adjective:

    Having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing.

  2. Blessed as an adjective (Roman Catholicism):

    A title indicating the beatification of a person, thus allowing public veneration of those who have lived in sanctity or died as martyrs.

  3. Blessed as an adjective:

    Held in veneration; revered.

  4. Blessed as an adjective:

    Worthy of worship; holy.

  5. Blessed as an adjective (informal):

    An intensifier; damned.

    Examples:

    "Not one blessed person offered to help me out."

  1. Blessed as a verb:

  1. Profane as an adjective:

    Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.

  2. Profane as an adjective:

    Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.

    Examples:

    "'profane authors"

  3. Profane as an adjective:

    Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or scorn; blasphemous, impious.

  4. Profane as an adjective:

    Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain

    Examples:

    "a profane person, word, oath, or tongue"

  1. Profane as a noun:

    A person or thing that is profane.

  2. Profane as a noun (freemasonry):

    A person not a Mason.

  1. Profane as a verb (transitive):

    To violate (something sacred); to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate

    Examples:

    "One should not profane the name of God."

    "to profane the Scriptures"

  2. Profane as a verb (transitive):

    To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to debase; to abuse; to defile.