unholy
Against the sacred
Unholy means not sacred, or contrary to what is holy—profane, wicked, sinful: an unholy alliance, unholy acts.
The word often carries a sense of something that violates sacred principles or natural order.
Informally, unholy intensifies something outrageous or extreme: an unholy mess, an unholy racket, at an unholy hour.
Disrespectful toward the divine
- profaneIrreverent toward the sacred
- irreverentDisrespectful toward authority
- impiousLacking religious respect
- godlessLacking belief in deities
heretical · sacrilege · desecration · defilement · profanation · iconoclastic · heathen · apostate
Evil or slang-excellent
- malevolentHarboring ill will
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
- nefariousExtremely evil or villainous
- villainousExtremely wicked or criminal
malicious · depraved · vile · heinous · monstrous · iniquitous · corrupt · immoral
Wicked or outrageous
- outrageousShockingly bad or excessive
- awfulExtremely bad quality
- dreadfulCausing great fear or suffering
- terribleExtremely poor or distressing
horrendous · atrocious · ridiculous · absurd · excessive · unreasonable · insufferable · unbearable
Extremely wicked or cruel
- diabolicalExtremely wicked or cruel
- demonicOf or like devils
- devilishWicked or impish
- hellishExtremely unpleasant or cruel
infernal · fiendish · occult · witchcraft · sorcery · black magic · demonology · necromancy
blasphemous
Disrespectful toward the divine
- profaneIrreverent toward the sacred
- irreverentDisrespectful toward authority
- impiousLacking religious respect
godless · heretical · sacrilege · desecration · defilement · profanation · iconoclastic · heathen · apostate · infidel
wicked
Evil or slang-excellent
- malevolentHarboring ill will
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
- nefariousExtremely evil or villainous
villainous · malicious · depraved · vile · heinous · monstrous · iniquitous · corrupt · immoral · perverse
ungodly
Wicked or outrageous
- outrageousShockingly bad or excessive
- awfulExtremely bad quality
- dreadfulCausing great fear or suffering
terrible · horrendous · atrocious · ridiculous · absurd · excessive · unreasonable · insufferable · unbearable · ghastly
satanic
Extremely wicked or cruel
- diabolicalExtremely wicked or cruel
- demonicOf or like devils
- devilishWicked or impish
hellish · infernal · fiendish · occult · witchcraft · sorcery · black magic · demonology · necromancy · summoning
foreboding
Fearful anticipation of harm
macabre · haunting · dread · grim · baleful · ominous · creepy · unsettling · ghastly · spectral
- infernalhellish, demonic, diabolical, satanic, devilish
- Good and Evilgood, evil, good versus evil, virtue and vice, morality
- U-wordsugly, ultimate, ultra, umbrella, unable
- Hellhellfire, brimstone, lake of fire, eternal fire, perdition
- moralitymoral, moral values, immoral, moral principles, moral code
- Vampiresvampire, vampires, vampirism, fangs, coffin
unholyholy
Dedicated to the divine
sacred · consecrated · hallowed · blessed · sanctified
unholyreasonable
Showing sound judgment
sensible · acceptable · moderate · appropriate · decent
- unholy alliancePartnership between unlikely, corrupt parties
- unholy trinityBlasphemous counterpart to sacred three
- unholy presence
- unholy waterRitually corrupted sacred liquid