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Definition: Ungodly |
UngodlyAdjective1. Characterized by iniquity; wicked because it is believed to be a sin; "iniquitous deeds"; "he said it was sinful to wear lipstick"; "ungodly acts". 2. Lacking piety and reverence for a god. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ungodly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references) |
Synonyms: UngodlySynonyms: impious (adj), iniquitous (adj), sinful (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Irreligion | Adjective: irreligious; indevout; undevout; devoutless, godless, graceless; ungodly, unholy, unsanctified, unhallowed; atheistic, without God. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ungodly |
| Specialty definitions using "ungodly": Man of Belial. (references) |
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 | Dracula; haunted; scary; nightmarish; spooky; ungodly. |
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| "Ungodly" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ungodly" is used about 38 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 38 | 55,818 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "ungodly": ungodly noise. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ungodly | 3 |
godly people things ungodly when | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "ungodly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | jobesimtar (faithless, impious, non believer, unbeliever), i pafe (godless, heathen, infidel, irreligious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | възмутителен (disgusting, outrageous, revolting, scandalous, shameful, shocking), нечуван (egregious, outrageous, unheard of, unprecedented), неблагочестив (impious), безбожен (godless, irreligious, outrageous, unchristian, unholy, wicked). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pekelný (hellish, infernal, unholy), hříšníci, bezbožníci, bezbožný (godless, impious, unholy, wicked). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | لامذهب , سنگدل (Implacability, Implacable, Inexorable, Obdurate, Unfeeling, Unholy), خدانشناس (Atheist, Impious), بی دین (Impious, Irreligious, Paynim). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | jumalaton (godless, irreligious, wicked). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | gottlos (godless, impious, impiously, irreligious, profane, unholy, wicked), scheußlich (abominable, atrocious, atrociously, awful, beastly, dreadful, execrable, hideous, nastily, nasty, putrid, revolting, vile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | άπιστοσ (disloyal, faithless, infidel, perfidious, recreant, unbeliever, unfaithful), ασεβήσ (blasphemous, impertinent, impious, irreverent, regardless), αθεόφοβοσ (accursed, rascal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | istentelen (freaking, godless, impious, miscreant, pagan, paganish, unholy), bűnös (culpable, culprit, malicious, miscreant, nefarious, peccant, rep, sinful, sinner, transgressor, trespasser). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | empio (godless, heinous, impious, unholy), assurdo (absurd, absurdity, nonsense, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous, senseless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | meechrauee (impious, irreligious, undevout). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | odlyungay terrível (abysmal, awesome, awful, deadly, desperate, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, elect, fearful, fearsome, fell, frightful, grisly, gruesome, hideout, horrible, horrid, lurid, parlous, redoubtable, redoubted, terrible, terrific, tragic, tremendous), ímpio (abysmal, godlike, graceless, ill-favored, ill-favoured, impious, unblessed, unhallowed, unholy). (various references) неверующий (disbeliever, irreligious, non believer, nonbeliever, pagan, unbeliever, unbelieving), нелепый (absurd, grotesque, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ragtime, ridicule, ridiculous). (various references) sraman (disgraceful, outrageous, reproachful, shameful), nečuven (egregious, outrageous, unheard of), grešan (iniquitous, peccable, peccant, sinful, unrighteous), bezbožan (godless, impious, miscreant, unfaithful, unhallowed, unrighteous). (various references) impío (godless, impious, profane, unholy). (various references) ogudaktig (godless, impious, wicked), gudlös (godless, graceless, impious, irreligious, unhallowed). (various references) günahkâr (erring, evil, evil doer, fallen, guilty, reprobate, sacrilegious, sinful, sinner, transgressor, trespasser, unrighteous, wicked, wrongdoer), dinsiz (faithless, godless, heathenish, impious, irreligious, profane, unbeliever), berbat (abominable, abysmal, accursed, accurst, appalling, atrocious, awful, bad, badly, beastly, bum, chronic, crappy, dashed, destroyed, deuced, devilish, disgusting, dread, dreadfull, egregious, execrable, fierce, flagitious, frightful, fucked up, ghastly, grotty, hell, hell of, helluva, horrible, horrid, indifferent, infamous, infernal, ropy, rotten, screwed, shocking, sickening, spoilt, sticky, stinking, terrible, unsavory, unsavoury, vicious, vile, villainous, violent, wretched), allah'sız (atheistic, godless, impious), allah'ın cezası (bleeding, blinking, blithering, bugger, drat it, drat you, goddamn, goddamned). (various references) невіруючий (disbeliever, godless, infidel, irreligious, non believer, nullifidian, unbeliever, unfaithful), жахливий (abominable, abysmal, almighty, appalling, atrocious, awesome, awful, blinking, blood-curdling, blue, chronic, damnable, damned, deadly, desperate, deuced, devilish, dire, direful, dreadful, eerie, eery, eldritch, enormous, fearful, fearsome, ferocious, flagrant, frightening, frightful, grievous, gruesome, horrible, horrific, iniquitous, macabre, monstrous, plaguy, scarey, scary, towering, tragic, tremendous, wretched). (various references) không tôn giáo (unreligious). (various references) annuwiol (godless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | impius. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 16, Verse 27 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Anhr afrwn orussei eautw kaka epi de twn eautou ceilewn qhsaurizei pur |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Vir impius fodit malum et in labiis eius ignis ardescit |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | An unwis man delueth euel; and in the lippis of hym fyr brenneth. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | A good-for-nothing man is a designer of evil, and in his lips there is a burning fire. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 16, Verse 27 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ang tawo nga walay kapuslanan nagalalang ug dautang buhat; Ug diha sa iyang mga ngabil adunay makasunog nga kalayo. |
| Chinese | 匪 ' 圖 謀 奸 惡 、 嘴 上 彷 彿 有 ' 焦 的 火 。 |
| Croatian | Bezoènik pripravlja samo zlo i na usnama mu je oganj plameni. |
| Danish | En Nidding graver Ulykkesgrave, det er, som brændte der Ild på hans Læber. |
| Dutch | Een Belialsman graaft kwaad; en op zijn lippen is als brandend vuur. |
| Finnish | Kelvoton mies kaivaa toiselle onnettomuutta; hänen huulillaan on kuin polttava tuli. |
| French | L`homme pervers prépare le malheur, Et il y a sur ses lèvres comme un feu ardent. |
| German | Ein loser Mensch gräbt nach Unglück, und in seinem Maul brennt Feuer. |
| Hungarian | A haszontalan ember gonoszt ás ki, és az õ ajkain mintegy égõ tûz van; |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Orang jahat berusaha mencelakakan sesamanya; kata-katanya jahat seperti api membara. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Barangsiapa yang mengupayakan jahat, ia itu fasik adanya, dan pada bibirnya adalah bisa sengat kalajengking. |
| Italian | L'uomo perverso produce la sciagura, sulle sue labbra c'è come un fuoco ardente. |
| Maori | ¶ E whakatakoto ana te tangata tikangakore i te kino, a kei ona ngutu ano he ahi e ka ana. |
| Norwegian | En niding graver en ulykkesgrav, og på hans leber er det likesom en fortærende ild. |
| Portuguese | O homem vil suscita o mal; e nos seus lábios há como que um fogo ardente. |
| Rumanian | Omul stricat pregqtewte nenorocirea, wi pe buzele lui este ca un foc aprins. - |
| Russian | юЕМПЧЕЛ МХЛБЧЩК ЪБНЩЫМСЕФ ЪМП, Й ОБ ХУФБИ ЕЗП ЛБЛ 'Щ ПЗПОШ БМСЭЙК. |
| Spanish | El hombre indigno trama el mal, y en sus labios hay como fuego abrasador. |
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Misspellings | |
"Ungodly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Osgodby, Ungud. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ungodly" (pronounced ungô"dlē) |
| 4 | -ô" d l ē | broadly. |
| 3 | -d l ē | absurdly, acidly, admittedly, advisedly, allegedly, assertedly, assuredly, avidly, avowedly, awkwardly, badly, baldly, belatedly, blandly, blindly, boldly, candidly, coldly, contentedly, cowardly, crudely, cuddly, dastardly, deadly, decidedly, deservedly, determinedly, Diddley, doggedly, downwardly, evenhandedly, excitedly, fondly, friendly, gladly, godly, goodly, grandly, guardedly, haphazardly, hardly, heatedly, hurriedly, idly, inwardly, kindly, loudly, madly, markedly, medley, mildly, niggardly, oddly, otherworldly, outwardly, placidly, pointedly, profoundly, proudly, purportedly, rapidly, repeatedly, reportedly, reputedly, Ridley, rigidly, roundly, rudely, ruggedly, sadly, secondly, shrewdly, solidly, soundly, splendidly, straightforwardly, stupidly, supposedly, thirdly, timidly, unabashedly, unashamedly, undoubtedly, unexpectedly, unfriendly, unprecedentedly, upwardly, validly, vividly, weirdly, wholeheartedly, wickedly, widely, wildly, worldly, wretchedly. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-l-n-o-u-y" | |
-1 letter: loungy. | |
-2 letters: dungy, gluon, godly, young. | |
-3 letters: dogy, dong, duly, dung, gold, logy, long, loud, lung, luny, odyl, oldy, only, ugly, undo, undy, yond. | |
-4 letters: dog, dol, don, dug, dun, duo, gnu, god, goy, gul, gun, guy, log, lug, nod, nog, old, oud, udo, yod, yon, you. | |
-5 letters: do, go, lo, no, nu, od, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-g-l-n-o-u-y" | |
+3 letters: doubtingly, playground, soundingly. | |
+4 letters: dangerously, outyielding, playgrounds. | |
+5 letters: astoundingly, bodybuilding, curmudgeonly, endogenously, groundlessly, indigenously, resoundingly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 67 6F 64 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. --. --- -.. .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01100111 01101111 01100100 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n g o d l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0067 006F 0064 006C 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)55807381707891 |
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