"heathenish" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "heathen",
        "3": "ish"
      },
      "expansion": "heathen + -ish",
      "name": "suf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From heathen + -ish.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more heathenish",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most heathenish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "heathenish (comparative more heathenish, superlative most heathenish)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ish",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "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 Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:",
          "text": "[…] ‘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.’",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "The opposite wall of this entry was hung all over with a heathenish array of monstrous clubs and spears.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1852, John Whitgift, “Of the Communion Book. Tract IX. The General Faults Examined wherewith the Public Service is Charged by T[homas] C[artwright]”, in John Ayre, editor, The Works of John Whitgift, D.D., […] The Second Portion, Containing the Defence of the Answer to the Admonition against the Reply of Thomas Cartwright: Tractates VII–X (Publications of the Parker Society; no. 48), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Printed at the University Press, →OCLC, page 447:",
          "text": "Let it not be lawful to use wicked observations of the calends, and to keep the gentiles' holy-days, nor to deck houses with bays or green boughs; for all this is an heathenish observation.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Resembling a heathen."
      ],
      "id": "en-heathenish-en-adj-w78r9EOW",
      "links": [
        [
          "heathen",
          "heathen"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "heathenistic"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "heathenly"
        },
        {
          "word": "heathenous"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "heathenish"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "heathen",
        "3": "ish"
      },
      "expansion": "heathen + -ish",
      "name": "suf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From heathen + -ish.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more heathenish",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most heathenish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "heathenish (comparative more heathenish, superlative most heathenish)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "heathenistic"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -ish",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "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 Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:",
          "text": "[…] ‘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.’",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "The opposite wall of this entry was hung all over with a heathenish array of monstrous clubs and spears.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1852, John Whitgift, “Of the Communion Book. Tract IX. The General Faults Examined wherewith the Public Service is Charged by T[homas] C[artwright]”, in John Ayre, editor, The Works of John Whitgift, D.D., […] The Second Portion, Containing the Defence of the Answer to the Admonition against the Reply of Thomas Cartwright: Tractates VII–X (Publications of the Parker Society; no. 48), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Printed at the University Press, →OCLC, page 447:",
          "text": "Let it not be lawful to use wicked observations of the calends, and to keep the gentiles' holy-days, nor to deck houses with bays or green boughs; for all this is an heathenish observation.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Resembling a heathen."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "heathen",
          "heathen"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "heathenly"
        },
        {
          "word": "heathenous"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "heathenish"
}