Unholy

Definition: Unholy

Unholy

Adjective

1. Not hallowed or consecrated.

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".

3. Having committed unrighteous acts; "a sinful person".

Date "unholy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Unholy

Synonyms: demonic (adj), diabolic (adj), diabolical (adj), fiendish (adj), hellish (adj), infernal (adj), satanic (adj), sinful (adj), unhallowed (adj), wicked (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: holy (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: Unholy

English words defined with "unholy": Dishallow ♦ unholiness. (references)

Specialty definitions using "unholy": Altar ♦ BODY ♦ Sacred Isle. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I really am some kind of unholy vampire messiah. (Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver II; writing credit: Amy Hennig) Also known as Vigo the Cruel, Vigo the Torturer, Vigo the Despised, and Vigo the Unholy. (Ghostbusters II; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis) I gotta stop him before he unleashes unholy havoc and it's just another Tuesday night in Sunnydale. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Angel, a monument to unholy carnality, and a cesspool of marital pollution, a shameless, brazen, bulldozing female prepared to humiliate, provoke, and tantalize, savagely seeking the tranquilizer of unrestrained fulfillment. (Good Morning... and Goodbye!; writing credit: Jack Moran) My son, we're pilgrims in an unholy land. (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; writing credit: Mario Van Peebles)
Lyrics	Unholy shall be our way, never shall we betray. (One With Darkness; performing artist: Cher) Only ya unholy, only have one homey (Sing For The Moment; performing artist: EMINEM)
Movie/TV Titles	Unholy Rollers (1972) The Unholy Wife (1957) Unholy Partners (1941) The Unholy Quest (1934) Unholy Love (1932)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Chronicles of the Host II: Unholy Empire (reference) Six Thousand Years of Bread: Its Holy and Unholy History (The Cook's Classic Library) (reference) Unholy Ground: An Inspector Matt Minogue Mystery (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Unholy Alliance (reference) Unholy Rollers (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Political Economy	Japan	The LDP's strong protection for Japan's inefficient farmers against the interests of the majority of Japanese consumers is infamous, but the Japan Medical Association works closely with the LDP to thwart needed changes in Japan's healthcare system and Japan's construction firms are locked in an unholy alliance with LDP politicians to build roads to nowhere and ozymandian edifices at the public expense. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	ALTAR, n. The place whereupon the priest formerly raveled out the small intestine of the sacrificial victim for purposes of divination and cooked its flesh for the gods. The word is now seldom used, except with reference to the sacrifice of their liberty and peace by a male and a female tool. They stood before the altar and supplied The fire themselves in which their fat was fried. In vain the sacrifice! -- no god will claim An offering burnt with an unholy flame. M.P. Nopput
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	We must combat an unholy axis of new threats from terrorists, international criminals and drug traffickers.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Unholy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 79.01% of the time. "Unholy" is used about 81 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)	79.01%	64	42,009
Adverb (general)	13.58%	11	106,044
Noun (proper)	6.17%	5	157,705
Noun (common)	1.23%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	81	N/A

Expression using "unholy": unholy din. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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.

Language		Translations for "unholy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mbinatyror (eerie, supernatural), i mëkatshëm (erring, unhallowed). (various references)

Arabic		‏غير مقدس, ‏آثم (peccant, unrighteous, vicious), ‏شيطاني (demoniacal, demonic, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, impish, infernal, playful, satanic, serpentine, swinging), ‏شرير (bad, black, black-hearted, dark, devil, diabolic, diabolical, evil, ill, iniquitous, maleficent, malicious, malign, nasty, naughty, rascally, reprobate, rogue, roguish, rude, sinister, spiteful, vicious, wicked). (various references)

Bulgarian		ужасен (aghast, appalling, awful, bloodcurdling, deadly, desperate, deuced, devastating, dire, direful, dreadful, eldritch, execrable, fearful, fearsome, frantic, frightful, furious, ghastly, great, grievous, grisly, gruesome, horrible, horrid, horror-stricken, lurid, macabre, miserable, morbid, murderous, planet-stricken, planet-struck, precious, sad, septic, terrible, terrific, towering, tremendous, unmentionable, vicious, wretched), сатанински (fiendish, satanic, sulphurous), отвратителен (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, atrocious, awful, beastly, bestial, carrion, creepy, cursed, damnable, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, execrable, foul, fulsome, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, ill-favored, ill-favoured, infamous, loathsome, lousy, miserable, morbid, nasty, nauseous, noisome, odious, offensive, punk, putrid, rank, repellent, revolting, rotten, septic, shocking, sickening, ugly, unsavory, unsavoury, unspeakable, villainous, wicked), нечестив (impious, nefarious, profane, unclean, unhallowed), неосветен (unhallowed, unlit), безбожен (godless, irreligious, outrageous, unchristian, ungodly, wicked), прекален (excessive, extreme, inordinate, overdone, profuse, superfluous, thick, unconscionable, undue, unmerciful). (various references)

Czech		zlý (bad, dirty, evil, evil-minded, ferocious, maleficent, malign, mean, niddering, rank, severe, vicious, wicked), pekelný (hellish, infernal, ungodly), příšerný (appalling, atrocious, blinding, chronic, creepy, damnable, dreadful, excruciating, fearful, fiendish, ghastly, grisly, gruesome, horrendous, terrible, terrific, unspeakable, villainous, weird), nepřirozený (contrived, factious, far fetched, farfetched, hollow, unnatural), nekalý (dishonest), dìsný (awful, dreadful, fearsome, great, grim, grisly, gruesome, hair-rising, hairy, horrid, lurid, macabre, unearthly), bezbožný (godless, impious, ungodly, wicked). (various references)

Farsi		نامقدس , کفرامیز (Profane, Unhallow, Unhallowed), سنگدل (Implacability, Implacable, Inexorable, Obdurate, Unfeeling, Ungodly). (various references)

French		profane, impie (unrighteous). (various references)

German		unheilig (unhallowed, unsaintly). (various references)

Greek		ανόσιοσ, ανίεροσ (sacrilegious, unhallowed). (various references)

Hebrew		מרושע (diabolic, evil, iniquitous, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, nefarious, sinister, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked), רשע (evil, evildoing, harm, iniquity, malignant, wicked, wrong), � ורא (bloody, damned, dire, dread, fearful, frightful, hellish, shocking, terrible, terrific). (various references)

Hungarian		istentelen (freaking, godless, impious, miscreant, pagan, paganish, ungodly). (various references)

Italian		empio (godless, heinous, impious, ungodly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		俗念 (unholy desires, worldliness, worldly ambition). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぞくね�" (unholy desires, worldliness, worldly ambition). (various references)

Manx		meenoo (impious, unhallowed), anchasherick (impious, profane). (various references)

Pig Latin		olyunhay

Portuguese		profano (abysmal, outsider, profane, temporal, unhallowed, worldly), pecaminoso (abysmal, sinful), irreligioso (irreligious), horrível (abysmal, awful, direful, dismal, dread, dreadful, dreary, ghastly, gruesome, horrible, nasty, terrible), ímpio (abysmal, godless, unblessed, ungodly, unhallowed). (various references)

Russian		нечестивый (godless, impious, unrighteous), порочный (evil, perverse, vicious). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neosveštan. (various references)

Spanish		terrible (awful, devastating, dire, dirty, dread, dreadful, eerie, evil, fearful, ghastly, gruesome, hellish, hideous, horrible, horrid, jolly, lousy, lurid, outrageous, splitting, terrible, terror, wicked), impío (godless, impious, profane, ungodly). (various references)

Swedish		ondskefull (baleful, fiendish, ill natured, pernicious, sinister), okristlig, ohelig, förskräcklig (abysmal, apalling, appalling, desperate, dire, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightful, gruesome, horrendous, horrible, shocking, terrible, tremendous). (various references)

Turkish		kutsal olmayan, kötücül (cankered, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, wicked), fena (angrily, bad, badly, evil, foul, ill, malicious, miserable, nasty, poor, poorly, sinful, sinister, vicious, wicked), dine aykırı. (various references)

Ukrainian		нечестивий (castaway, godless, impious, irreligious, nefarious, profane, reprobate, unrighteous, wicked), злісний (baleful, cammed, cankered, cattish, despiteful, diabolic, diabolical, evil-minded, inveterate, malicious, malign, malignant, venomous, virulent, wrathy), бісівський (devilish). (various references)

Vietnamese		xấu xa (cankerous, ignominious, nameless, ugly, vicious), vô đạo, không linh thiêng không tín ngưỡng. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Date	Source	Hebrews Chapter 10, Verse 29
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Posw dokeite ceironoV axiwqhsetai timwriaV o ton uion tou qeou katapathsaV kai to aima thV diaqhkhV koinon hghsamenoV en w hgiasqh kai to pneuma thV caritoV enubrisaV
Latin	405	Vulgate	Quanto magis putatis deteriora mereri supplicia qui Filium Dei conculcaverit et sanguinem testamenti pollutum duxerit in quo sanctificatus est et Spiritui gratiae contumeliam fecerit
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Hou myche more gessen ye, that he disserueth worse turmentis, which defouleth the sone of God, and holdith the blood of the testament pollut, in which he is halewid, and doith dispit to the spirit of grace?
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Of how moche sorer punyshment suppose ye shall he be counted worthy which treadeth vnderfote the sonne of god: and counteth the bloude of the testament as an vnholy thynge wherwith he was sanctified and doth dishonoure to the sprete of grace.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Of how much more severe punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, by which he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite to the Spirit of grace?
Basic English	1964	Ogden	But will not the man by whom the Son of God has been crushed under foot, and the blood of the agreement with which he was washed clean has been taken as an unholy thing, and who has had no respect for the Spirit of grace, be judged bad enough for a very much worse punishment?
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Hebrews Chapter 10, Verse 29
Cebuano	Sa inyong paghunahuna, unsa ka labi pa ka mabug-at gayud sa silot nga mahiaguman sa tawo nga magayatak sa Anak sa Dios, ug magapakawalay bili sa dugo sa pakigsaad nga pinaagi niini gibalaan siya, ug magapanamastamas sa Espiritu sa grasya?
Croatian	Zamislite koliko li æe goru kaznu zavrijediti tko Sina Božjega pogazi, i neèistom smatra krv Saveza kojom je posveæen, i Duha milosti pogrdi?
Danish	hvor meget værre Straf mene I da, at den skal agtes værd, som træder Guds Søn under Fod og agter Pagtens Blod, hvormed han blev helliget, for urent og forhåner Nådens Ånd?
Dutch	Hoeveel te zwaarder straf, meent gij, zal hij waardig geacht worden, die den Zoon van God vertreden heeft, en het bloed des testaments onrein geacht heeft, waardoor hij geheiligd was, en den Geest der genade smaadheid heeft aangedaan?
Finnish	kuinka paljoa ankaramman rangaistuksen luulettekaan sen ansaitsevan, joka tallaa jalkoihinsa Jumalan Pojan ja pitää epäpyhänä liiton veren, jossa hänet on pyhitetty, ja pilkkaa armon Henkeä!
French	de quel pire châtiment pensez-vous que sera jugé digne celui qui aura foulé aux pieds le Fils de Dieu, qui aura tenu pour profane le sang de l`alliance, par lequel il a été sanctifié, et qui aura outragé l`Esprit de la grâce?
German	Wie viel, meint ihr, ärgere Strafe wird der verdienen, der den Sohn Gottes mit Füßen tritt und das Blut des Testaments unrein achtet, durch welches er geheiligt ist, und den Geist der Gnade schmäht?
Haitian Creole	Nou pa bezwen mande kisa ki va rive yon moun k'ap meprize Pitit Bondye a, yon moun ki pran san Pitit Bondye a pou anyen, san ki sèvi pou siyen kontra Bondye a, san ki mete nou nan kondisyon pou fè sèvis Bondye a, san ki mete nou apa pou Bondye a. Wi, nou pa bezwen mande kisa ki va rive yon moun k'ap joure Lespri Bondye ki ban nou favè li a. Nou tou konnen li merite yon pi gwo chatiman.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Betapa lebih berat hukuman yang harus dijatuhkan atas orang yang menginjak-injak Anak Allah. Orang itu menganggap hina darah perjanjian Allah, yakni kematian Kristus yang membersihkannya dari dosa. Ia menghina Roh pemberi rahmat.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	kamu pikirlah, betapa berat lagi siksa yang patut dikenakan atas orang yang sudah melanyakkan Anak Allah itu, dan yang membilangkan najis darah perjanjian yang dalamnya Ia dikuduskan itu, dan yang mengolok-olokkan Roh pohon anugerah itu.
Italian	Di quanto maggior castigo allora pensate che sar� ritenuto degno chi avr� calpestato il Figlio di Dio e ritenuto profano quel sangue dell'alleanza dal quale è stato un giorno santificato e avr� disprezzato lo Spirito della grazia?
Latvian	Kâ jums ðíiet, cik gan smagâku sodu pelna tas, kas Dieva Dçlu kâjâm mîtu un derîbas asinis, kurâs tas svçtîts, turçtu par nesvçtâm, un þçlastîbas Garu nievâtu?
Maori	Ki to koutou whakaaro, e kore ranei e tika kia rahi ake te whiu mo te tangata i takahia ai te Tama a te Atua, i meinga ai hei mea noa nga toto o te kawenata i whakatapua ai ia, a whakaiti ana i te Wairua o te aroha noa?
Norwegian	hvor meget verre straff tror I da den skal aktes verd som har trådt Guds Sønn under føtter og ringeaktet paktens blod, som han blev helliget ved, og har hånet nådens Ånd?
Rumanian	Cu ckt mai asprq pedeapsq credeyi cq va lua cel ce va cqlca kn picioare pe Fiul lui Dumnezeu, va pkngqri skngele legqmkntului, cu care a fost sfinyit, wi va batjocori pe Duhul harului?
Shuar	Núnisaitkiuinkia shuar Yusa Uchirin wishikiainiakka ni numpencha nakitiainiakka tura Yus niin anea nuna Wakanincha katsekainiakka nuna nankaamas Asutniáchartatuak. Warí, nii nakitiana nu numpajai Yamaram Chicham nekas umirkatin awajsamuyayi. Tura Nújaisha nii ti pénker awajnastiniuyayi.
Spanish	¿Cuánto mayor castigo pensáis que merecerá el que ha pisoteado al Hijo de Dios, que ha considerado de poca importancia la sangre del pacto por la cual fue santificado y que ha ultrajado al Espíritu de gracia?
Swahili	Je, mtu yule anayempuuza Mwana wa Mungu na kuidharau damu ya agano la Mungu iliyomtakasa, mtu anayemtukana Roho wa Mungu, anastahili kupata adhabu kali ya namna gani?
Swedish	huru mycket svårare straff tron I icke då att den skall anses värd, som förtrampar Guds Son och aktar förbundets blod för orent -- det i vilket han har blivit helgad -- och som smädar nådens Ande!
Uma	Ane hewa toe-mi huku' tauna to uma mposaile' Atura Musa, peliu-liu-nami mpai' tauna to mpobahaka pepangala' -ra hi Yesus. Tauna toera, hewa to mpopongko lau-mi Ana' Alata'ala. Ra'uli' -rana, uma ria kalaua-na raa' Yesus to mporohoi Pojanci Alata'ala pai' to mpomoroli' -ra. Mporuge' lau-ramo Inoha' Tomoroli' to nawai' -taka Alata'ala ngkai kabula rala-na. Tantu meliu kagaga pehuku' -na Alata'ala hi tauna to hewa toe kehi-ra.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings
	"Unholy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Anholt, Dunholm, Dunolly, Gunhild, Gunnhild, Mulhooley, Nujol, unchoosy, uncosy, unholly, unrolly. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "unholy" (pronounced unhō"lē)
4	-h ō" l ē	holy, wholly.
3	-ō" l ē	goalie, guacamole, lowly, moly, ravioli, slowly.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "h-l-n-o-u-y"
	-2 letters: holy, luny, only.
	-3 letters: hon, hoy, hun, noh, yon, you.
	-4 letters: ho, lo, no, nu, oh, on, oy, uh, un, yo.
	Words containing the letters "h-l-n-o-u-y"
	+2 letters: honeyful, unholily.
	+3 letters: heinously, uncouthly.
	+4 letters: polyanthus, touchingly, unworthily.
	+5 letters: honeysuckle, polyphonous, unscholarly.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 68 6F 6C 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01101000 01101111 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0068 006F 006C 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day
unholy	14
unholy war	11
esham the unholy	8
horse personalized picture unholy	8
ghost unholy	5
unholy trinity	4
grave unholy	4
alliance unholy	4
graal nation unholy	3
black metal unholy	3
cheat unholy war	3
nation unholy	2
nun unholy	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Unholy

Definition: Unholy

Unholy

Adjective

Synonyms: Unholy

Synonyms within Context: Unholy

Irreligion

Crosswords: Unholy

Modern Usage: Unholy

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Devil's Dictionary

Speeches: Unholy

Bill Clinton

Usage Frequency: Unholy

Expression: Unholy

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Unholy

Modern Translation: Unholy

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Bible Trace: Unholy

Matched Bible Translations: Unholy

Misspellings: Unholy

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Rhyming with "Unholy"

Anagrams: Unholy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Unholy

55 6E 68 6F 6C 79

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