IRREVERENTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does irreverently mean? 

• IRREVERENTLY (adverb)
  The adverb IRREVERENTLY has 2 senses:

1. without respect

2. in an irreverent manner

  Familiarity information: IRREVERENTLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IRREVERENTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without respect

Context example:

the student irreverently mimicked the teacher in his presence

Antonym:

reverently (with reverence; in a reverent manner)

Pertainym:

irreverent (showing lack of due respect or veneration)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In an irreverent manner

Context example:

in the seventeenth century England had known fifty years of doctrinal quarrels and civil war; clergymen had been turned from their cures, and churches irreverently used

Pertainym:

irreverent (showing lack of due respect or veneration)

 Context examples 

Did you think me speaking improperly, lightly, irreverently on the subject?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)