Usually means: Disrespectful or mocking toward authority.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word irreverent:

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  1. irreverent: Merriam-Webster
  2. irreverent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. irreverent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. irreverent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. irreverent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Irreverent, irreverent: Wordnik
  7. irreverent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. irreverent: Wiktionary
  9. irreverent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. irreverent: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Irreverent, irreverent: Dictionary.com
  12. irreverent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Irreverent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. irreverent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. irreverent: Rhymezone
  16. Irreverent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. irreverent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. irreverent: FreeDictionary.org
  19. irreverent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. irreverent: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. irreverent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. irreverent: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. irreverent: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. irreverent: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See irreverently as well.)

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▸ adjective:  Lacking respect; not having or not showing respect for or seriousness towards something that is usually treated with respect; going against conventional precepts.

Similar:
disrespectful, blasphemous, sacrilegious, aweless, godless, impious, impertinent, profane, pert, spirited, more...

Opposite:
reverent, respectful, honorable

Types:
sarcastic, ironic, sardonic, cynical, snarky, witty, dry, more...

Phrases:
playfully irreverent, irreverent fiction, opposite of irreverent, more...

Adjectives:
daring, own, least, highest, same, pulpit

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Similar:
disrespectful, blasphemous, sacrilegious, aweless, godless, impious, impertinent, profane, pert, spirited, more...

Opposite:
reverent, respectful, honorable

Types:
sarcastic, ironic, sardonic, cynical, snarky, witty, dry, more...

Phrases:
playfully irreverent, irreverent fiction, opposite of irreverent, more...

Adjectives:
daring, own, least, highest, same, pulpit

Colors:
    electric blue,     neon green,     hot pink,     lime green,     shocking pink, more...



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