What is another word for unhallowed?

Pronunciation: [ʌnhˈalə͡ʊd] (IPA)

Unhallowed is often used to describe something that is not sacred or desecrated. There are several synonyms that can be used to express the same idea. Profane, sacrilegious, blasphemous and impious are some words that can be used to describe something that is not respectful to the divine. Unholy, godless, irreligious, and unrighteous are other synonyms that describe something that is not sacred or pure. These words are often used in literature and religious contexts to describe something that is not virtuous or respectful. While they may differ slightly in meaning, they all convey the idea of something that is not regarded as holy or sacred.

What are the hypernyms for Unhallowed?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for unhallowed?

Unhallowed is an adjective that describes something that is not holy or sacred. It is often used to describe things that are wicked or sinful. Antonyms for the word unhallowed include words like holy, sacred, pure, and blessed. These words describe things that are honorable, righteous, and respected. They are often used to describe things that are worshiped or revered in religious contexts. Other antonyms for unhallowed include words like righteous, virtuous, and godly, which are used to describe things that are good and moral. These antonyms provide a balance to unhallowed by describing the positive aspects of religion and morality.

What are the antonyms for Unhallowed?

Usage examples for Unhallowed

The eyes and the teeth flash round on her mother, and in a twinkling the unhallowed shadow of the past is gone.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
An unhallowed fiend had cut off the sequel with scissors and boned it!
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
Thence will rise "a nobler, a larger mankind," wakened at length from "the night of toil, unhallowed by joy in the task."
"The Three Heron's Feathers"
Hermann Sudermann

Famous quotes with Unhallowed

  • Selden asserts, and in my opinion with great justice, that all these whimsical transpositions of dignity are derived from the ancient Saturnalia, or Feasts of Saturn, when the masters waited upon their servants, who were honoured with mock titles, and permitted to assume the state and deportment of their lords. These fooleries were exceedingly popular, and continued to be practised long after the establishment of Christianity, in defiance of the threatenings and the remonstrances of the clergy, who, finding it impossible to divert the stream of vulgar prejudice permitted them to be exercised, but changed the primitive object of devotion; so that the same unhallowed orgies, which had disgraced the worship of a heathen deity, were dedicated, as it was called, to the service of the true God, and sanctioned by the appellation of a Christian institution. From this polluted stock branched out variety of unseemly and immoral sports; but none of them more daringly impious and outrageous to common sense, than the Festival of Fools, in which the most sacred rites and ceremonies of the church were turned into ridicule, and the ecclesiastics themselves participated in the abominable profanations.
    Joseph Strutt
  • Johansen, thank God, did not know quite all, even though he saw the city and the Thing, but I shall never sleep calmly again when I think of the horrors that lurk ceaselessly behind life in time and in space, and of those unhallowed blasphemies from elder stars which dream beneath the sea, known and favoured by a nightmare cult ready and eager to loose them upon the world whenever another earthquake shall heave their monstrous stone city again to the sun and air.
    H. P. Lovecraft

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