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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person unsure that God exists |
| Synonyms: | doubter, freethinker, materialist, skeptic, unbeliever |
| Notes: | an agnostic is one who believes that it is impossible to know whether there is a God; an atheist is one who disbelieves or denies the existence of God or gods |
| Antonyms: | believer |
| Main Entry: | doubter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who does not believe |
| Synonyms: | agnostic, cynic, disbeliever, headshaker, questioner, skeptic, unbeliever, zetetic |
| Antonyms: | believer, truster |
| Main Entry: | doubtful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not believing |
| Synonyms: | agnostic, baffled, confused, discomposed, disconcerted, distracted, distrustful, disturbed, doubting, dubious, equivocal, faithless, faltering, flustered, hesitant, hesitating, in a quandary, in clouds, in dilemma, indecisive, irresolute, like doubting Thomas, lost, not following, of two minds, perplexed, puzzled, questioning, skeptical, suspicious, tentative, theoretical, troubled, uncertain, unconvinced, undecided, unresolved, unsettled, unsure, vacillating, wavering, without belief |
| Notes: | a person is capable of doubting, whereas a thing is dubitable; dubious, unlike doubtful, carries the connotation of suspicion |
| Antonyms: | believing, certain, confident, convinced, sure, trusting |
| Main Entry: | godless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without a god or divine faith |
| Synonyms: | adiamorphic, agnostic, atheistic, freethinking, iconoclastic, irreligious, nonbelieving, skeptical, undogmatic |
| Antonyms: | godly, religious |
| Main Entry: | heathen |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not believing in Christian god |
| Synonyms: | agnostic, atheistic, barbarian, godless, idolatrous, infidel, irreligious, nonbeliever, pagan, profane, skeptic |
| Antonyms: | godly, religious |
| Main Entry: | heretical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unorthodox |
| Synonyms: | agnostic, apostate, atheistic, differing, disagreeing, dissenting, dissentive, dissident, freethinking, heterodox, iconoclastic, idolatrous, impious, infidel, misbelieving, miscreant, nonconformist, revisionist, schismatic, sectarian, skeptical, unbelieving |
| Antonyms: | orthodox |
| Main Entry: | impious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not religious |
| Synonyms: | agnostic, apostate, atheistic, blasphemous, canting, contrary, deceitful, defiling, desecrating, desecrative, diabolic, disobedient, disrespectful, godless, hardened, hypocritical, iconoclastic, immoral, iniquitous, irreligious, irreverent, perverted, pietistical, profane, recusant, reprobate, sacrilegious, sanctimonious, satanic, scandalous, sinful, unctuous, undutiful, unethical, unfaithful, ungodly, unhallowed, unholy, unregenerate, unrighteous, unsanctified, wayward, wicked |
| Antonyms: | holy, pious, religious |
| Main Entry: | infidel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonbeliever |
| Synonyms: | agnostic, atheist, gentile, heathen, heretic, nonworshiper, pagan, unbeliever |
| Main Entry: | irreligious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ungodly |
| Synonyms: | agnostic, atheistic, blasphemous, faithless, free-thinking, godless, heathen, iconoclastic, impious, irreverent, pagan, sacrilegious, sinful, unbelieving, undevout, unholy |
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