saintly

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of SAINTLY

showing a devotion to God and to a life of virtue <a saintly man who devoted his life to caring for the dying>

Synonyms devout, godly, pious, religious, sainted, saintly

Related Words ascetic (also ascetical), prayerful, reverent, reverential, spiritual, worshipful; pietistic, religiose; beatified, blessed (also blest), canonized, venerable; angelic (or angelical), cherubic; chaste, moral, pure, righteous, upright, virtuous

Near Antonyms blasphemous, desecrating, irreverent, profanatory, profane, sacrilegious; nonreligious, secular, unspiritual, worldly; backsliding, unfaithful; black, evil, immoral, iniquitous, miscreant, sinful, sinning, unrighteous, wicked

Antonyms antireligious, faithless, godless, impious, irreligious, ungodly, unholy

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