ungodly
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- characterized by iniquity; wicked because it is believed to be a sin
- "ungodly acts"
Adj
- Of a person: lacking reverence for God; of an action: not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings.
- Immoral, sinful, or wicked.
- Extreme; unreasonable.
Adv
- In an impious, irreverent, or ungodly manner; ungodlily.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English ungodli [and other forms], from un- (prefix meaning ‘not’), + godli (“belonging to God; resembling God, godlike”). Godli is derived from Old English godlīċ (“divine, godlike; godly”), from god (“god”) + -līċ (“suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘characteristic of, pertaining to’”). The English word may be analysed as un- + godly, and is cognate with Middle Dutch ongodelijc (modern Dutch ongoddelijk), Middle High German ungötlich (modern German ungöttlich), Old Norse óguðligr (“ungodly”) (Danish ugudelig, Icelandic óguðlegur), Swedish ogudlig.
Synonyms
abandoned, aberrant, arrant, bad, bad apple, bad seed, baleful, baneful, base, corrupt, corrupted, dark, deleterious, depraved, despicable, detrimental, devilish, diabolical, dirty-handed, dissolute, dreadful, effete, errant, evil, flagitious, harmful, ill-intentioned, ill-natured, immodest, immoral, impious, improper, incontinent, incorrigible, indecent, indecorous, iniquitous, iniquous, injurious, irreligious, irreverent, knavish, licentious, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, nefarious, niddering, nidering, niding, nithing, no-good, obscene, outrageous, peccaminous, pernicious, perverse, perverted, profligate, reprehensible, reprobate, satanic, scathful, sinful, sinister, sordid, sullen, unduteous, undutiful, unethical, ungodly, unholy, unjust, unprincipled, unrighteous, unscrupulous, unseemly, unworthy, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrong
Antonyms
bad, dishonest, godly, immodest, immoral, incontinent, indecent, obscene, observant, pious, reprehensible, reverent, risque, shameless, unchaste, wicked
Scrabble Score: 12
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