Ungodly

Quick meaning: Ungodly is an adjective meaning Of a person: lacking reverence for God; of an action: not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings.

Meaning

Of a person: lacking reverence for God; of an action: not in accordance with God's will or religious teachings.

More Meanings

1. Immoral, sinful, or wicked.
2. (informal) Extreme; unreasonable.
3. (obsolete) In an impious, irreverent, or ungodly manner; ungodlily.

Example Sentences

People often turn to ungodly ideas as an emotional response to trauma.

This righteousness spoken about is a judicial or forensic declarative pronouncement given by God to the ungodly sinner who receives it by faith alone.

Therefore the vngodly ſhall not ſtand in the iudgement, nor ſinners in the Congregation of the righteous. For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the vngodly ſhall periſh.

Beſides, he hath not been afraid to rail on you, my Lord, who are now appointed to be his Judge, calling you an ungodly Villain, with many other ſuch like vilifying terms, with which he hath beſpattered most of the Gentry of our Town.

Word Forms

• ungodlier
• ungodliest

Synonyms for ungodly

Depending on context, synonyms include irreligious, irreverent, abandoned, arrant, bad, baleful.

Antonyms for ungodly

Common opposites include godly, observant, pious, reverent, chaste, continent.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include iniquitous, irreligious, sinful, wicked, improper, untimely.

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