Holy crap, who's the asshole who dares call me in the middle of the night?!
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Holy
//ˈhəʊli//
Synonyms for "holy" (135 found)
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Closest matches (27)
Strong matches (41)
Related words (67)
majesticmakingmercifulmysticalnuminousobeisanceomnipotentomnipresentomniscientoneotherworldlypermanentperpetualpietisticpiousprayerfulpurepure in heartpureheartedradiant
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religiousreservedreveredreverencereverencedreverentreverentialrighteoussacrosanctsaintsaintedsaintlikesaintlyseraphicshapingsinlesssolemnsovereignspiritualspiritual-mindedspotlesssublimesupernalsupremetimelessubiquitousunboundedunchanginguncorruptedundefiledundefinedunearthlyunlimitedunspeakableunsullieduntainteduntouchableunutterableunworldlyvenerableveneratedworshiped
Adjective(4 words)
Noun(1 words)
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4 entriesSynonyms
6 entriesRelated terms
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1 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
12 entriessimilar
12 entriesTranslations
230 translations across 99 languages.
Aghwan
1 entries- 𐕌𐕒𐕡𐕟𐕒𐕡𐕙 adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Albanian
1 entries- shenjtë adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Amharic
1 entries- ቅዱስ adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Ancient Greek
4 entries- ἅγιος adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- ἅγιος adj (revered in a religion)
- ἱερός adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- ὅσιος adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Arabic
2 entries- مقدس adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- مُقَدَّس adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Armenian
3 entries- սուրբ adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- սուրբ adj (revered in a religion)
- սուրբ adj (dedicated for a specific purpose)
Aromanian
2 entries- sãmtu adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- sãntu adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- müqəddəs adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Bashkir
1 entries- мөҡәддәс adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Belarusian
4 entries- святы́ adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- святы́ adj (revered in a religion)
- свяшчэ́нны adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- свяшчэ́нны adj (revered in a religion)
Bulgarian
4 entries- безупречен adj (flawless)
- свеще́н adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- свят adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- свят adj (revered in a religion)
Catalan
4 entries- sagrat adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- sagrat adj (separated from or set apart)
- sagrat adj (dedicated for a specific purpose)
- sant adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Chagatai
1 entries- مقدس adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 神聖 /神圣 adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- 聖 /圣 adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- 聖潔 /圣洁 adj (flawless)
Church Slavic
4 entries- свѧтъ adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- свѧтъ adj (revered in a religion)
- ⱄⰲⱔⱅⱏ adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- ⱄⰲⱔⱅⱏ adj (revered in a religion)
Cornish
1 entries- sans adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Czech
3 entries- posvátný adj (revered in a religion)
- svatý adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- svatý adj (revered in a religion)
Dalmatian
1 entries- suant adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Danish
1 entries- hellig adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Dutch
4 entries- ... huisje) adj (flawless)
- foutloos adj (flawless)
- gewijd adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- heilig adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Egyptian
1 entries- Dsr:r adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Esperanto
1 entries- sankta adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Estonian
1 entries- püha adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Faroese
4 entries- halga adj (slang intensifier)
- halgur adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- heilagur adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- heilagur adj (revered in a religion)
Finnish
4 entries- pyhitetty adj (separated from or set apart)
- pyhitetty adj (dedicated for a specific purpose)
- pyhä adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- pyhä adj (revered in a religion)
French
4 entries- bénit adj (revered in a religion)
- sacré adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- saint adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- saint adj (revered in a religion)
Friulian
1 entries- sant adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Galician
2 entries- sacro adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- sagrado adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Ge'ez
1 entries- ቅዱስ adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Georgian
1 entries- წმინდა adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
German
2 entries- heilig adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- heilig adj (revered in a religion)
Gothic
2 entries- 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌷𐍃 adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌷𐍃 adj (revered in a religion)
Greek
3 entries- άγιος adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- άγιος adj (revered in a religion)
- ιερός adj (dedicated for a specific purpose)
Greenlandic
2 entries- illernartoq adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- iluartoq adj (revered in a religion)
Hebrew
3 entries- קדוש \ קָדוֹשׁ adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- קדוש \ קָדוֹשׁ adj (dedicated for a specific purpose)
- קודש \ קֹדֶשׁ noun (holy thing)
Hidatsa
1 entries- xubáa adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Hindi
1 entries- पवित्र adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Hungarian
1 entries- szent adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Hunsrik
1 entries- heilich adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Icelandic
2 entries- heilagur adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- helgur adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Indonesian
4 entries- keramat adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- keramat adj (revered in a religion)
- kudus adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- suci adj (flawless)
Irish
4 entries- beannaithe adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- cráifeach adj (flawless)
- diaganta adj (flawless)
- naofa adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Istriot
1 entries- santo adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Italian
3 entries- immacolato adj (flawless)
- sacro adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- santo adj (revered in a religion)
Japanese
2 entries- 神聖 adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- 聖なる adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Kashubian
1 entries- swiãti adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Korean
2 entries- 거룩한 adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- 신성한 adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- ыйык adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Lakota
1 entries- wakȟáŋ adj (revered in a religion)
Latin
4 entries- sacer adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- sacer adj (revered in a religion)
- sacer adj (dedicated for a specific purpose)
- sānctus adj (revered in a religion)
Latvian
1 entries- svēts adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Lithuanian
1 entries- šventas adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Lower Sorbian
2 entries- swěty adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- swěty adj (revered in a religion)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- helleg adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Macedonian
4 entries- свет adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- свет adj (revered in a religion)
- светиња noun (holy thing)
- светост noun (holy thing)
Malay
1 entries- suci adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Malayalam
3 entries- പരിശുദ്ധ adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- വിശുദ്ധ adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- വിശുദ്ധ adj (revered in a religion)
Mari
1 entries- шнуй adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Māori
2 entries- tapu adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- tapu adj (revered in a religion)
Navajo
2 entries- diyin adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- diyin adj (revered in a religion)
Norman
1 entries- saint adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- hellig adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- hellig adj (revered in a religion)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- heilag adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- heilag adj (revered in a religion)
Occitan
2 entries- sacrat adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- sant adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Old English
4 entries- hāleġ adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- hāleġ adj (revered in a religion)
- hāliġ adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- hāliġ adj (revered in a religion)
Old Occitan
1 entries- sant adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Ottoman Turkish
4 entries- شریف adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- شریف adj (revered in a religion)
- عزیز adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- عزیز adj (revered in a religion)
Persian
3 entries- اسپنتا adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- سپنتا adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- مقدس adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Plautdietsch
2 entries- heilich adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- heilich adj (revered in a religion)
Polish
3 entries- święty adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- święty adj (revered in a religion)
- święty adj (slang intensifier)
Portuguese
4 entries- imaculado adj (flawless)
- sacro adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- sacro adj (revered in a religion)
- sagrado adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Quechua
1 entries- willka adj (revered in a religion)
Rapa Nui
2 entries- tapu adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- tapu adj (separated from or set apart)
Romanian
2 entries- sfânt adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- sfânt adj (revered in a religion)
Romansch
4 entries- sench adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- sogn adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- son adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- sonch adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Russian
4 entries- бо́жий adj (slang intensifier)
- свято́й adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- свято́й adj (revered in a religion)
- свято́й adj (flawless)
Sardinian
1 entries- santu adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Scots
2 entries- haly adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- haly adj (revered in a religion)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- coisrigte adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- coisrigte adj (dedicated for a specific purpose)
- naomh adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- naomh adj (revered in a religion)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- svet adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- свет adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Sicilian
1 entries- santu adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Slovak
2 entries- svätý adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- svätý adj (revered in a religion)
Slovene
1 entries- svet adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Spanish
4 entries- sacro adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- sagrado adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- santo adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- santo adj (revered in a religion)
Swedish
2 entries- helig adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- helgedom noun (holy thing)
Tatar
1 entries- мөкаддәс adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Thai
1 entries- ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Turkish
4 entries- be mübarek adj (slang intensifier)
- kutsal adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- kutsal adj (revered in a religion)
- mukaddes adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Turkmen
1 entries- mukaddes adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Ugaritic
1 entries- 𐎖𐎄𐎌 adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Ukrainian
4 entries- святи́й adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- святи́й adj (revered in a religion)
- свяще́нний adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- свяще́нний adj (revered in a religion)
Urdu
1 entries- مقدس adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Uyghur
1 entries- مۇقەددەس adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Uzbek
1 entries- muqaddas adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Venetan
1 entries- santo adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Vietnamese
2 entries- thánh adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- thần thánh adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Welsh
2 entries- sanctaidd adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- sanctaidd adj (revered in a religion)
Yiddish
1 entries- הייליק adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
Yup'ik
2 entries- tanqilria adj (dedicated to a religious purpose)
- tanqilria adj (revered in a religion)
Sample sentences
20 total sentences available.
Holy cow!
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This is holy ground.
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The Holy Roman Empire came to an end in the year 1806.
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