Word Study
unholy
CIDE DICTIONARY
unholy, a.
Not holy; unhallowed; not consecrated; hence, profane; wicked; impious. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
unholy, adj. (unholier, unholiest)
1 impious, profane, wicked.
2 colloq. dreadful, outrageous (made an unholy row about it).
3 not holy.
1 impious, profane, wicked.
2 colloq. dreadful, outrageous (made an unholy row about it).
3 not holy.
Derivative
unholiness n.
Etymology
OE unhalig (as UN-(1), HOLY)
THESAURUS
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, worldlyROGET THESAURUS
unholy
Irreligion
N irreligion, indevotion, godlessness, ungodliness, laxity, quietism, skepticism, doubt, unbelief, disbelief, incredulity, incredulousness, want of faith, want of belief, pyrrhonism, bout, agnosticism, atheism, deism, hylotheism, materialism, positivism, nihilism, infidelity, freethinking, antichristianity, rationalism, neology, atheist, skeptic, unbeliever, deist, infidel, pyrrhonist, giaour, heathen, alien, gentile, Nazarene, espri fort, freethinker, latitudinarian, rationalist, materialist, positivist, nihilist, agnostic, somatist, theophobist, irreligious, indevout, undevout, devoutless, godless, graceless, ungodly, unholy, unsanctified, unhallowed, atheistic, without God, skeptical, freethinking, unbelieving, unconverted, incredulous, faithless, lacking faith, deistical, unchristian, antichristian, worldly, mundane, earthly, carnal, worldly minded, irreligiously.For further exploring for "unholy" in Webster Dictionary Online