unholy
adj/ʌnˈhəʊli/
Etymology
From Middle English unholi, unhaliȝ, from Old English unhāliġ, from Proto-Germanic *unhailagaz, equivalent to un- + holy. Cognate with Scots unhaly, Dutch onheilig, German Low German unhillig, German unheilig, Danish uhellig, Swedish ohelig.
- inherited from *unhailagaz✻
- inherited from unhāliġ
- inherited from unholi
Definitions
Not holy
Not holy; (by extension) evil, impure, or otherwise perverted.
- The priest's unholy behaviour brought the church into disrepute.
Dreadful, terrible, excessive, or otherwise atrocious.
- What an unholy mess your room is in!
- I've been spending an unholy amount of time trying to write a novel!
The neighborhood
- synonymcommon
- synonymimpious
- synonymimpure
- synonymmishallowed
- synonymprofane
- synonymunhallowed
- synonymunholy
- antonymholy
- neighbordiabolical
- neighborgodforsaken
- neighborinfernal
- neighborsinful
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for unholy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA