different between sacrilegious vs godless

English

Etymology

Compare sacrilege, Latin sacrilegus. From Latin sacer + leg? (“steal something sacred”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sæk.???l?d?.?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /sæk.???l?d?.?s/, /sæk.???lid??s/
• Rhymes: -?d??s, -i?d??s

Adjective

sacrilegious (comparative more sacrilegious, superlative most sacrilegious)

1. Committing sacrilege; acting or speaking very disrespectfully toward what is held to be sacred.

Related terms

• sacrilege

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English godles, from Old English *godl?as, from Proto-Germanic *gudalausaz, equivalent to god +? -less. Cognate with Saterland Frisian godloos (“godless”), West Frisian goddeleas (“godless; wicked”), Dutch goddeloos (“godless; wicked”), German Low German gottlos (“godless”), German gottlos (“godless”), Danish gudløse (“godless”), Swedish gudlös (“godless; ungodly”), Icelandic guðlaus (“godless”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (gudalaus, “godless”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???dl?s/
• Rhymes: -?dl?s

Adjective

godless (comparative more godless, superlative most godless)

1. Not acknowledging any deity or god; without belief in any deity or god.
2. (derogatory, slang) evil, wicked, worldly.

Synonyms

• agnostic
• atheistic
• blasphemous
• graceless
• impious
• infidel
• iniquitous
• irreligious

Related terms

• godlessness
• godlessly

Translations

Anagrams

• dogless, glossed