Antonyms for saint
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1. Saintnoun

   A title given to a saint, often prefixed to the person's name.

   Saint Stephen was the first martyr.

   Synonyms:
   St, St.

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1. • Declare
   • Deity
   • Religion
   • Venerate

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. saintnoun

   a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization

   Synonyms:
   nonsuch, apotheosis, holy man, nonesuch, angel, nonpareil, paragon, ideal, holy person

2. saint, holy man, holy person, angelnoun

   person of exceptional holiness

   Synonyms:
   nonsuch, backer, apotheosis, holy man, nonesuch, angel, nonpareil, paragon, ideal, holy person

3. ideal, paragon, nonpareil, saint, apotheosis, nonesuch, nonsuchverb

   model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal

   Synonyms:
   nonsuch, deification, perfection, ideal, apotheosis, exaltation, holy man, idol, angel, nonpareil, paragon, nonesuch, holy person, beau ideal

4. enshrine, saintverb

   hold sacred

   Synonyms:
   shrine, enshrine, canonise, canonize

5. canonize, canonise, saintverb

   declare (a dead person) to be a saint

   "After he was shown to have performed a miracle, the priest was canonized"

   Synonyms:
   canonise, enshrine, canonize

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1. saintnoun

   Associated words:
   canonize, canonization, hagiology, hagiologist, hagiolatry, hagiolater, hagiography, hagiographa, dulia, legend, diptych, feretory, philatory, relic, apse, reliquary, shrine, saintism, sainthood, saintship, hagiographer, hierotheca

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:3.0 / 8 votes

1. sinner

   saint means when someone died and was declared as saint

   Submitted by anonymous on April 6, 2021  

2. sinner

   a person acknowledged as holy or virtuous and typically regarded as being in heaven after death

   Submitted by acronimous on September 17, 2014  

3. sinner

   a person who does good deeds and avoid doing sins with constant repenting

   a saint, a priest

   Submitted by JP03 on October 27, 2014  

How to use saint in a sentence?

1. Keydren Clark:

   Yes, I got a lot of Facebook messages, a lot of text messages from people, Instagram DMs. It’s been a lot of contact from people I haven’t talked to and people I have kept in touch with, it’s amazing they remember me from playing there. I tell them thank you but at the end of the day it’s not about me. I’m along for the ride just like you guys are because I had my opportunity but it didn’t work out. But I’m living through them because it’s something I would have loved to do and they’re doing it. So, for me, it’s like thank you guys for thinking of me but it’s not even about me, it’s more so about them Clark is the school's all-time leader in points scored and one of the few Peacocks players who have gone on to play professional basketball after college. He played from 2002-2006 but never got a chance to play in the tournament. Keydren Clark of Umana competes with Jerel Mc Neal of Fabi Shoes during the Lega Basket Series. A match between Umana Venezia and Fabi Shoes Montegranaro at Palaverde on October 30, 2011, in Treviso, Italy.  (Arturo Presotto - Iguana Press/Getty Images) He said he was pretty hyped to watch Saint Peter's take down a giant like Kentucky.

2. Jason Smith -LRB- left -RRB-:

   The leaving of cookies for Santa or St. Nicholas is a tradition that started during the Feast of St. Nicholas that the Dutch held each year, they would bring cookies to honor the saint, and to give travelers a snack for when they arrived from all over the country to praise the saint.

3. Lawrence Dennis:

   It comes as news to most people to learn that practically all important ethical teachers -- Moses, Aristotle, Jesus, Mohammed, and Saint Thomas Aquinas, for instance -- have denounced lending at interest as usury and as morally wrong.

4. Jesse Eisenberg:

   My wife and I are very involved on a day-to-day level -- painting and cleaning and mopping. And there's a lot of sterilization to be done, as you can imagine, right now -- door knobs and elevator buttons, et cetera, i married a person who is a walking saint and so she has not spent a day in her life not doing something to help those most in need. So, for her, it was kind of without hesitancy that we should come here and figure out ways to help.

5. Proverb:

   Don't kneel in front of a saint who doesn't perspire.

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