"unholy trinity" meaning in English

See unholy trinity in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: unholy trinities [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} unholy trinity (plural unholy trinities)
  1. A set of three antagonistic and closely associated people or things.
    Sense id: en-unholy_trinity-en-noun-NOGVUiUW
  2. (economics) Synonym of impossible trinity Categories (topical): Economics Synonyms: impossible trinity [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-unholy_trinity-en-noun-~F8G~ElR Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 96 Topics: economics, science, sciences

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for unholy trinity meaning in English (1.5kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "unholy trinities",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "unholy trinity (plural unholy trinities)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005, Cheryl A. Wall, Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition",
          "text": "In her essay \"Zora Neale Hurston: A Cautionary Tale and a Partisan View,\" Alice Walker deems Hurston, Billie Holiday, and Bessie Smith \"an unholy trinity.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A set of three antagonistic and closely associated people or things."
      ],
      "id": "en-unholy_trinity-en-noun-NOGVUiUW",
      "links": [
        [
          "antagonistic",
          "antagonistic"
        ],
        [
          "associate",
          "associate"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Economics",
          "orig": "en:Economics",
          "parents": [
            "Social sciences",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "4 96",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of impossible trinity"
      ],
      "id": "en-unholy_trinity-en-noun-~F8G~ElR",
      "links": [
        [
          "economics",
          "economics"
        ],
        [
          "impossible trinity",
          "impossible trinity#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(economics) Synonym of impossible trinity"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "impossible trinity"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "economics",
        "science",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "unholy trinity"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "unholy trinities",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "unholy trinity (plural unholy trinities)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005, Cheryl A. Wall, Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition",
          "text": "In her essay \"Zora Neale Hurston: A Cautionary Tale and a Partisan View,\" Alice Walker deems Hurston, Billie Holiday, and Bessie Smith \"an unholy trinity.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A set of three antagonistic and closely associated people or things."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "antagonistic",
          "antagonistic"
        ],
        [
          "associate",
          "associate"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Economics"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of impossible trinity"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "economics",
          "economics"
        ],
        [
          "impossible trinity",
          "impossible trinity#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(economics) Synonym of impossible trinity"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "impossible trinity"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "economics",
        "science",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "unholy trinity"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.