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heathenish

heathenish adjective: resembling a heathen.

Adjective

heathenish (comparative more heathenish, superlative most heathenish)

  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.’1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], chapter XXXVI, in Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and...
    • The opposite wall of this entry was hung all over with a heathenish array of monstrous clubs and spears.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 3, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

heathenish meaning in Tamil and Urdu

heathenish in Tamil

விக்கிரக வழிபாடு செய்யும், புற சமயத்தைச் சார்ந்த, அஞ்ஞான

heathenish in Urdu

غیرمتمدن, جنگلی, کافر, ناتراشیدہ, سخت, وحشی

Synonyms of heathenish

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Forms of heathenish

comparativemore heathenish
superlativemost heathenish

Origin of heathenish

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

Words formed from heathenish

Questions about heathenish

What does heathenish mean?
Heathenish means resembling a heathen.
What is heathenish in Tamil?
Heathenish in Tamil is விக்கிரக வழிபாடு செய்யும், புற சமயத்தைச் சார்ந்த, அஞ்ஞான. See Heathenish meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is heathenish?
Heathenish is an adjective.

Words near heathenish in the dictionary

  1. heathenest
  2. heathenhood
  3. heathenise
  4. heathenised
  5. heathenises
  6. heathenish
  7. heathenishly
  8. heathenishness
  9. heathenising
  10. heathenism
  11. heathenisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heathenish (page history and authors); heathenish (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); heathenish (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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