heathenish

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
19
Words With Friends
17
Letters
10

Definition of heathenish

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Resembling a heathen.
    “[…] ‘Tobit and his dog baith are altogether heathenish and apocryphal, and none but a prelatist or a papist would draw them into question. I doubt I hae been mista'en in you, friend.’”
    “The opposite wall of this entry was hung all over with a heathenish array of monstrous clubs and spears.”
    “Let it not be lawful to use wicked observations of the calends, and to keep the gentiles' holy-days, nor to deck houses with bays or green boughs; for all this is an heathenish observation.”

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Etymology

From heathen + -ish. Compare with Old English hǣþenisc.

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