holy

adjective · interjection · nounA1

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

holierholiestholie

Superlative

hoolyHoly'oly

1.
Dedicated to a religious purpose or a god.
I'm planning to visit the holy city of Jerusalem this Christmas.
Đồng nghĩa: sacred, godly
2.
Revered in a religion.
This tree is considered holy in my culture.
Đồng nghĩa: sacred, godly
3.
Morally perfect or flawless, or nearly so.
My grandmother is a very holy woman.
Đồng nghĩa: faultless, flawless, perfect
4.
Separated or set apart from (something unto something or someone else).
Đồng nghĩa: consecrated, hallowed, sanctified, consecrated, divined, hallowed, holy, sacrate, sacred, sanctified
5.
Set apart or dedicated for a specific purpose, or for use by a single entity or person.
Đồng nghĩa: reserved, special
6.
(slang)Used as an intensifier in various interjections.
Holy cow, I can’t believe he actually lost the race!
Those children next door are holy terrors!
Holy mackerel
Đồng nghĩa: blessed, cursed, infernal, 4ucking, accursed, bally, blasted, bleeding, bleeping, blessed, blimming, blinking, bloody, blooming, confounded, consarned, cotton-picking, cowson, cursed, dadburn, dadgum, dagnabbed, damn, damnable, damned, dang, danged, darn, darned, dashed, deuced, doggone, dratted, effing, ever-loving, fecking, flaming, flipping, freaking, fricking, frigging, fucking, fudging, fugging, furshlugginer, jiggered, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, goddarned, godforsaken, goldurn, gormed, goshdarn, goshdarned, hecking, holy, infernal, living, mollyfogging, motherfucking, pissing, plain, precious, raasclaat, ruddy, sniggered, sodding, stinking

interjection

holiehoolyHoly'oly

1.
(slang)An expression of astonishment and awe.
Đồng nghĩa: holy shit

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

holiesholiehoolyHoly'oly

1.
(archaic)A thing that is extremely holy; used almost exclusively in Holy of Holies.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

sacred godlyfaultlessflawless perfect consecratedhallowedsanctifieddivinedsacrate reserved specialblessedcursed infernal4uckingaccursed bally blasted bleeding

Trái nghĩa

profane secular unholy worldly damaged defective faulty flawedimperfectcommon

Cùng gốc / liên quan

Holy RollerGreat and Holy ThursdayHoly JumperholinightHoly BookHoly BreadHoly ChurchHoly FatherHoly RoodHolyfieldholyishnonholyoverholyby the holy pokercourt holy breadcourt holy waterFive Holy Woundsholy bucketholy bucketsfor the love of all that is holy

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English ali, aly, hale, halege, hali, halȝe, hayly, holi, holia, holie, holiȝ, holy, hooly, oli, oly, wholy, woly, from Old English hāleġ, hāliġ (holy, sacred; healthy, sound), from *hailag, from Proto-Germanic *hailagaz (holy, sacred), from Proto-Germanic *hailaz (healthy; whole), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ilos (intact, whole; complete;