unpriestly

1. 1.

   not priestly; unbefitting a priest

   “unpriestly behavior”

   Antonymspriestly

Questions about unpriestly

What does unpriestly mean?

unpriestly means "not priestly; unbefitting a priest".

How many syllables are in unpriestly?

unpriestly has 3 syllables and divides as un-priest-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is the opposite of unpriestly?

The recorded antonyms are priestly.

Is unpriestly a common word?

unpriestly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.