Word Meanings - HEATHENISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Of or pertaining to the heathen; resembling or characteristic of heathens. "Worse than heathenish crimes." Milton. 2. Rude; uncivilized; savage; cruel. South. 3. Irreligious; as, a heathenish way of living.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HEATHENISH)

• Pagan
• Heathenish
• idolatrous
• Savage
• Ferocious
• ferine
• wild
• uncultivated
• untamed
• untaught
• uncivilized
• unpolished
• rude
• brutish
• brutal
• heathenish
• barbarous
• cruel
• fierce
• inhuman
• truculent
• pitiless
• merciless
• murderous
• violent
• malevolent

Related words: (words related to HEATHENISH)

• BARBAROUS
  slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous
• INHUMANITY
  The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. Burns.
• PAGANISH
  Of or pertaining to pagans; heathenish. "The old paganish idolatry." Sharp
• FERINE
  Wild; untamed; savage; as, lions, tigers, wolves, and bears are ferine beasts. Sir M. Hale. -- n.
• HEATHENISHNESS
  The state or quality of being heathenish. "The . . . heathenishness and profaneness of most playbooks." Prynne.
• MERCILESS
  Destitute of mercy; cruel; unsparing; -- said of animate beings, and also, figuratively, of things; as, a merciless tyrant; merciless waves. The foe is merciless, and will not pity. Shak. Syn. -- Cruel; unmerciful; remorseless; ruthless; pitiless;
• UNCIVILIZATION
  The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism.
• TRUCULENTLY
  In a truculent manner.
• BRUTAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a brute; as, brutal nature. "Above the rest of brutal kind." Milton. 2. Like a brute; savage; cruel; inhuman; brutish; unfeeling; merciless; gross; as, brutal manners. "Brutal intemperance." Macaulay.
• BRUTALLY
  In a brutal manner; cruelly.
• VIOLENT
  probably akin to Gr. 1. Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a violent blow; the violent attack of a disease. Float
• PAGANIC; PAGANICAL
  Of or pertaining to pagans or paganism; heathenish; paganish. "The paganic fables of the goods." Cudworth. -- Pa*gan"ic*al*ly, adv.
• FEROCIOUS
  Fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; ravenous; rapacious; as, ferocious look or features; a ferocious lion. The humbled power of a ferocious enemy. Lowth. Syn. -- Ferocious, Fierce, Savage, Barbarous. When these words are applied
• INHUMANLY
  In an inhuman manner; cruelly; barbarously.
• CRUELS
  Glandular scrofulous swellings in the neck.
• INHUMAN
  1. Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an inhuman person or people. 2. Characterized by, or attended with, cruelty; as, an inhuman act or punishment. Syn. --
• HEATHENISH
  1. Of or pertaining to the heathen; resembling or characteristic of heathens. "Worse than heathenish crimes." Milton. 2. Rude; uncivilized; savage; cruel. South. 3. Irreligious; as, a heathenish way of living.
• PAGAN
  One who worships false goods; an idolater; a heathen; one who is neither a Christian, a Mohammedan, nor a Jew. Neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man. Shak. Syn. -- Gentile; heathen; idolater. -- Pagan,
• IDOLATROUSLY
  In a idolatrous manner.
• MALEVOLENT
  Wishing evil; disposed to injure others; rejoicing in another's misfortune. Syn. -- Ill-disposed; envious; mischievous; evil-minded; spiteful; malicious; malignant; rancorous. (more info) pr. of velle to be willing or disposed, to wish. See Malice,
• AYUNTAMIENTO
  In Spain and Spanish America, a corporation or body of magistrates in cities and towns, corresponding to mayor and aldermen.
• SEMISAVAGE
  Half savage.
• NEOPAGANISM
  Revived or new paganism.
• PROPAGANDA
  A congregation of cardinals, established in 1622, charged with the management of missions. The college of the Propaganda, instituted by Urban VIII. (1623- 1644) to educate priests for missions in all parts of the world. 2. Hence, any organization