Like a Prayer
Resembling earnest supplication
Like a Prayer is Madonna's 1989 song and album, both considered career-defining works.
The phrase has become cultural shorthand for intense spiritual or transcendent experience, often with erotic undertones—reflecting the song's controversial fusion of religious imagery with sexual desire.
Someone describing an experience as like a prayer suggests something deeply moving, almost sacred in its intensity.
- MadonnaChrist's mother, or pop icon
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
- kneelingLowering onto bent legs
- worshipReligious reverence and praise
- hymnReligious song of praise
gospel choir · confession · sacred · gospel · choir · candles · whisper · hands clasped · bended knee · faith · blessing · incense · pew · stained glass · burning candle · reverence · spiritual · holy
- Albumsalbum, Thriller, Rumours, Pet Sounds, OK Computer
Like a Prayeremotional detachment
Withdrawal from feelings
noncommittal · apathetic · blasé · dispassionate · emotional numbness
like, prayer, liked, liking, likes, likeness, likewise, unlikely, likely