What does heathenish mean?
Heathenish means Resembling a heathen..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Resembling a heathen..
[…] ‘Tobit and his dog baith are altogether heathenish and apocryphal, and none but a prelatist or a papist would draw them into question. I doubt I hae been mista'en in you, friend.’
The opposite wall of this entry was hung all over with a heathenish array of monstrous clubs and spears.
Let it not be lawful to use wicked observations of the calends, and to keep the gentiles' holy-days, nor to deck houses with bays or green boughs; for all this is an heathenish observation.
Use heathenish when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Heathenish means Resembling a heathen..
Common synonyms include heathenly, heathenous, pagan, uncivilized.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] ‘Tobit and his dog baith are altogether heathenish and apocryphal, and none but a prelatist or a papist would draw them into question. I doubt I hae been mista'en in you, friend.’
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