epäpyhä — meaning in English

English meaning

• profane adjective Showing disrespect for sacred or religious things.
• unholy adj Not holy; wicked, evil, or sacrilegious.

Senses

epäpyhä is used for these senses in English:

• profane Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.
• profane Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.
• unholy Not holy; (by extension) evil, impure, or otherwise perverted.

profane — full definition

1. adjective Showing disrespect for sacred or religious things.
2. adjective Relating to ordinary, non-religious life rather than the sacred.
3. verb To treat something sacred with disrespect; to desecrate.

unholy — full definition

1. adj Not holy; wicked, evil, or sacrilegious.
2. adj Dreadful or outrageous in degree — used informally to intensify.

Related Finnish words