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Ungodly definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

UNGOD'LY, a.
1. Wicked; impious; neglecting the fear and worship of God, or violating his commands. 1 Peter 4.
2. Sinful; contrary to the divine commands; as ungodly deeds. Jude 4.
3. Polluted by wickedness; as an ungodly day.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: characterized by iniquity; wicked because it is believed to be a sin; "iniquitous deeds"; "he said it was sinful to wear lipstick"; "ungodly acts" [syn: iniquitous, sinful, ungodly]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 14th century 1. a. denying or disobeying God ; impious, irreligious b. contrary to moral law ; sinful, wicked 2. outrageous <gets up at an ungodly hour>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 impious, wicked. 2 colloq. outrageous (an ungodly hour to arrive). Derivatives: ungodliness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ungodly Un*god"ly, a. 1. Not godly; not having regard for God; disobedient to God; wicked; impious; sinful. 2. Polluted by sin or wickedness. The hours of this ungodly day. --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you describe someone or something as ungodly, you mean that they are morally bad or are opposed to religion. = unholy ADJ 2. If you refer to a time as an ungodly hour, you are emphasizing that it is very early in the morning. ...at the ungodly hour of 4.00am. = unearthly ADJ: ADJ n [emphasis] 3. If you refer to the amount or volume of something as ungodly, you mean that it is excessive or unreasonable. ...a power struggle of ungodly proportions. ADJ: ADJ n

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

un-god'-li (rasha` (Ps 1:1), "wicked," beliya`al (2Sa 22:5), "worthless"; in the New Testament asebes (Ro 5:6), e.g. indicating that the persons so called are both irreverent and impious): Trench says that the idea of active opposition to religion is involved in the word, that it is a deliberate withholding from God of His dues of prayer and of service; a standing, so to speak, in battle array against God and His claims to respect, reverence and obedience. Those whose sins are particularly aggravating and deserving of God's wrath are the "ungodly." And yet it is for such that Jesus Christ died (Ro 5:6).

William Evans

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Wicked, impious, sinful, unrighteous, godless, vicious, profane, reprobate, depraved, vile, bad, evil. 2. Unhallowed, unsanctified, unholy, polluted.

Moby Thesaurus

Adamic, a bit thick, a bit thin, absurd, appalling, atheistic, awful, backsliding, bad, barbarous, beastly, beyond belief, blasphemous, carnal, corrupt, cursed, damnable, demoniac, demoniacal, demonic, depraved, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, doubtable, doubtful, dreadful, dubious, dubitable, erring, evil, execrable, fallen, fiendish, flagitious, fleshly, frail, frightful, ghoulish, godless, hard of belief, hard to believe, heinous, hellish, heretical, iconoclastic, immoral, impious, implausible, improper, impure, inconceivable, incredible, indecent, indelicate, infernal, infirm, iniquitous, irreligious, irreverent, lapsed, malodorous, monstrous, nasty, not deserving belief, of easy virtue, open to doubt, open to suspicion, outrageous, passing belief, peccable, postlapsarian, preposterous, problematic, prodigal, profane, questionable, recidivist, recidivistic, ridiculous, rough, sacrilegious, satanic, shocking, sinful, staggering belief, suspect, suspicious, tall, terrible, thick, thin, un-Christly, unangelic, unbecoming, unbelievable, unchaste, unchristian, uncivilized, unclean, unconscionable, unconvincing, undecorous, unearthly, ungood, unhallowed, unholy, unimaginable, unrighteous, unsaintly, unthinkable, untoward, unvirtuous, unworthy of belief, vile, villainous, virtueless, wanton, wayward, weak, wicked