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Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
holy (adjective)
1.
exalted or worthy of complete devotion as one perfect in goodness and righteousness
2.
- divine for the Lord our God is holy Psalms 99:9(Authorized Version)
3.
devoted entirely to the deity or the work of the deity - a holy temple holy prophets
4.
a) having a divine quality - holy love
b) venerated as or as if sacred - holy scripture a holy relic
5.
- used as an intensive this is a holy mess he was a holy terror when he drank Thomas Wolfe often used in combination as a mild oath holy smoke
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
holy (adjective)
1.
showing a devotion to God and to a life of virtue
SYNONYMS:
devout, godly, pious, religious, sainted, saintly
RELATED WORDS:
ascetic ( ascetical), prayerful, reverent, reverential, spiritual, worshipful; pietistic, religiose; beatified, blessed ( blest), canonized, venerable; angelic ( angelical), cherubic; chaste, moral, pure, righteous, upright, virtuous
NEAR ANTONYMS:
blasphemous, desecrating, irreverent, profanatory, profane, sacrilegious; nonreligious, secular, unspiritual, worldly; backsliding, unfaithful; black, evil, immoral, iniquitous, miscreant, sinful, sinning, unrighteous, wicked
antireligious, faithless, godless, impious, irreligious, ungodly, unholy
holy (adjective)
2.
set apart or worthy of veneration by association with God
SYNONYMS:
blessed ( blest), consecrate, consecrated, hallowed, sacral, sacred, sacrosanct, sanctified
RELATED WORDS:
adored, enshrined, glorified, revered, venerated, worshipped ( worshiped); ceremonial, liturgical, priestly, religious, ritual, sacramental, spiritual; biblical, scriptural
NEAR ANTONYMS:
nonreligious, unspiritual; earthly, mundane, profane, secular, temporal, worldly
deconsecrated, desacralized, unconsecrated, unhallowed
holy (adjective)
3.
of, relating to, or being God
SYNONYMS:
blessed ( blest), divine, godlike, godly, heavenly, sacred, supernatural
RELATED WORDS:
eternal, everlasting, immortal; all-powerful, almighty, omnipotent, omniscient, supreme
NEAR ANTONYMS:
human, mortal, natural
holy (adjective)
4.
not to be violated, criticized, or tampered with
SYNONYMS:
hallowed, holy, inviolable, sacrosanct, unassailable, untouchable
RELATED WORDS:
inviolate, pure; privileged, protected, secure, shielded; exempt, immune
NEAR ANTONYMS:
blasphemous, irreverent, profane, sacrilegious
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