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Adjective unholy has 3 senses
- unholy(a = adj.all) unhallowed - not hallowed or consecrated; Array Antonym: holy
- unholy(s = adj.all) demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic - extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell; "something demonic in him--something that could be cruel"; "fires lit up a diabolic scene"; "diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils"; "a fiendish despot"; "hellish torture"; "infernal instruments of war"; "satanic cruelty"; "unholy grimaces" Derived form noun unholiness1
- unholy(s = adj.all) sinful, wicked - having committed unrighteous acts; "a sinful person" Derived form noun unholiness1
Derived form noun unholiness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
unholy, a.
Not holy; unhallowed; not consecrated; hence, profane; wicked; impious. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
unholy, adj. (unholier, unholiest)
1 impious, profane, wicked.
2 colloq. dreadful, outrageous (made an unholy row about it).
3 not holy.
1 impious, profane, wicked.
2 colloq. dreadful, outrageous (made an unholy row about it).
3 not holy.
Derivative
unholiness n.
Etymology
OE unhalig (as UN-(1), HOLY)
THESAURUS
unholy
amiss, barbarous, blamable, blameful, censurable, culpable, fleshly, godless, guilty, impious, irreligious, irreverent, mundane, nonsacred, profane, reprehensible, reprobate, secular, sinful, temporal, un-Christly, unangelic, unblessed, unchristian, uncivilized, unconscionable, ungodly, unhallowed, unregenerate, unrighteous, unsacred, unsaintly, unsanctified, wicked, worldlyROGET THESAURUS
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Irreligion
N irreligion, indevotion, godlessness, ungodliness, laxity, quietism, skepticism, doubt, unbelief, disbelief, incredulity, incredulousness, want of faith, want of belief, pyrrhonism, bout, agnosticism, atheism, deism, hylotheism, materialism, positivism, nihilism, infidelity, freethinking, antichristianity, rationalism, neology, atheist, skeptic, unbeliever, deist, infidel, pyrrhonist, giaour, heathen, alien, gentile, Nazarene, espri fort, freethinker, latitudinarian, rationalist, materialist, positivist, nihilist, agnostic, somatist, theophobist, irreligious, indevout, undevout, devoutless, godless, graceless, ungodly, unholy, unsanctified, unhallowed, atheistic, without God, skeptical, freethinking, unbelieving, unconverted, incredulous, faithless, lacking faith, deistical, unchristian, antichristian, worldly, mundane, earthly, carnal, worldly minded, irreligiously.
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