Sometimes the old landlady would come by and said "That child doesn't cry", but it was that my babysitting was godly.
Source: tatoeba (589604)
Godly
//ˈɡɑdli//
Synonyms for "godly" (65 found)
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Closest matches (13)
Strong matches (20)
Related words (32)
Related word relations
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Translations
63 translations across 25 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- إِلٰهِيّ adj (of or pertaining to a god)
Belarusian
2 entries- бо́жы adj (of or pertaining to a god)
- бо́скі adj (of or pertaining to a god)
Bengali
1 entries- এলাহী adj (of or pertaining to a god)
Bulgarian
4 entries- благочести́в adj (devoted to a god or God)
- бо́жи adj (of or pertaining to a god)
- боже́ствен adj (of or pertaining to a god)
- на́божен adj (devoted to a god or God)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 光榮 /光荣 adj (gloriously good)
- 敬神 adj (devoted to a god or God)
- 神的 adj (of or pertaining to a god)
- 神般的 adj (of or pertaining to a god)
Czech
2 entries- božský adj (of or pertaining to a god)
- boží adj (of or pertaining to a god)
Finnish
3 entries- jumalainen adj (gloriously good)
- jumalallinen adj (of or pertaining to a god)
- jumalinen adj (devoted to a god or God)
French
3 entries- divin adj (of or pertaining to a god)
- divin adj (gloriously good)
- pieux adj (devoted to a god or God)
German
3 entries- fromm adj (devoted to a god or God)
- göttlich adj (of or pertaining to a god)
- rechtschaffen adj (gloriously good)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌲𐌰𐌲𐌿𐌳𐍃 adj (devoted to a god or God)
Greek
3 entries- ευσεβής adj (devoted to a god or God)
- θεϊκός adj (of or pertaining to a god)
- θεϊκός adj (gloriously good)
Irish
3 entries- cráifeach adj (devoted to a god or God)
- diaga adj (of or pertaining to a god)
- diaganta adj (devoted to a god or God)
Lithuanian
2 entries- dieviškas adj (of or pertaining to a god)
- dieviškas adj (gloriously good)
Lower Sorbian
2 entries- bogojski adj (of or pertaining to a god)
- bóžy adj (of or pertaining to a god)
Macedonian
2 entries- божествен adj (of or pertaining to a god)
- божји adj (of or pertaining to a god)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- شریف adj (devoted to a god or God)
- عزیز adj (devoted to a god or God)
- مقدس adj (devoted to a god or God)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- fromm adj (devoted to a god or God)
Polish
4 entries- boski adj (of or pertaining to a god)
- boski adj (gloriously good)
- boży adj (of or pertaining to a god)
- pobożny adj (devoted to a god or God)
Russian
4 entries- бо́жий adj (of or pertaining to a god)
- боже́ственный adj (of or pertaining to a god)
- боже́ственный adj (gloriously good)
- на́божный adj (devoted to a god or God)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- božànskī adj (of or pertaining to a god)
- bȍžjī adj (of or pertaining to a god)
- бо̏жјӣ adj (of or pertaining to a god)
- божа̀нскӣ adj (of or pertaining to a god)
Slovak
2 entries- božský adj (of or pertaining to a god)
- boží adj (of or pertaining to a god)
Slovene
2 entries- božji adj (of or pertaining to a god)
- božánski adj (of or pertaining to a god)
Spanish
1 entries- deal adj (of or pertaining to a god)
Swedish
3 entries- gudfruktig adj (devoted to a god or God)
- gudomlig adj (of or pertaining to a god)
- gudomlig adj (gloriously good)
Ukrainian
2 entries- бо́жий adj (of or pertaining to a god)
- боже́ственний adj (of or pertaining to a god)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
Methinks he is not godly enough.
Source: tatoeba (1056076)
In itself idleness is not the root of all evil. Quite the opposite, in fact, it’s a downright godly existence, as long as one isn’t bored.
Source: tatoeba (3278139)
Sami was a godly man.
Source: tatoeba (7276651)
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