| impious | (adj) lacking piety or reverence for a god, Ant. pious |
| impious | (adj) lacking due respect or dutifulness, Syn. undutiful, Example: impious toward one's parents; an undutiful son |
| impiously | (adv) in an impious manner, Example: the young members challenged their leader impiously |
| Impious | 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; When vice prevails, and impious men bear away, -- |