Unholy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  unholy \un*ho"ly\ ([u^]n*h[=o]"l[y^]), a.
     Not holy; unhallowed; not consecrated; hence, profane;
     wicked; impious. -- {un*ho"li*ly}, adv. -- {un*ho"li*ness},
     n.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  unholy
       adj 1: not hallowed or consecrated [syn: {unhallowed}] [ant: {holy}]
       2: 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" [syn: {demonic}, {diabolic},
           {diabolical}, {fiendish}, {hellish}, {infernal}, {satanic}]
       3: having committed unrighteous acts; "a sinful person" [syn: {sinful},
           {wicked}]
       [also: {unholiest}, {unholier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  35 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, worldly