Sacrilegious means extremely disrespectful towards something considered sacred. An action that causes deep offense to a believer — like burning a religious text, for example — is sacrilegious. The Latin sacrilegus, "thief of sacred things," was used to describe robbers who plundered graves and temples.

What does it mean when a person is sacrilegious?

sacrilegious • \sak-ruh-LIJ-us\ • adjective. 1 : committing or characterized by a technical and not necessarily intrinsically outrageous violation (such as improper reception of a sacrament) of what is sacred because consecrated to God 2 : grossly irreverent toward a hallowed person, place, or thing.

Can humans sacrilegious?

Something described as sacrilegious is characterized by sacrilege—disrespect for sacred things. Sacrilegious is an adjective, and if you need an adverb with the same meaning, you'd use sacrilegiously.