sacred — OAT · Shobdo

sacred

adjective

1 only the priest was allowed to approach this most sacred place:

holy, hallowed, blessed, blest, consecrated, sanctified, dedicated, venerated, revered.

▷antonyms unconsecrated, cursed.

2 sacred music:

religious, spiritual, devotional, church, churchly, ecclesiastical.

▷antonyms secular, profane.

3 Coronation Hill was sacred to an Indigenous group:

sacrosanct, inviolable, inviolate, unimpeachable, invulnerable, untouchable, inalienable, protected, defended, secure, safe, unthreatened.

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hiero- related prefix, as in hierogram, hierocracy

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See holy.