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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonbeliever |
| Synonyms: | agnostic, atheist, gentile, heathen, heretic, nonworshiper, pagan, unbeliever |
| 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: | pagan |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irreligious |
| Synonyms: | agnostic, atheistic, heathen, idolatrous, impious, infidel, polytheistic, profane |
| Antonyms: | believing, religious |
| Main Entry: | pagan |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who does not believe in an orthodox religion |
| Synonyms: | agnostic, atheist, doubter, freethinker, heathen, heretic, iconoclast, idolater, idolist, infidel, paganist, pantheist, polytheist, scoffer, skeptic, unbeliever |
| Antonyms: | Christian, Jew, believer |
| Main Entry: | profane |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immoral, crude, disrespectful of religion |
| Synonyms: | abusive, atheistic, blasphemous, coarse, dirty*, filthy*, foul, godless, heathen, idolatrous, impious, impure, indecent, infidel, irreligious, irreverent, irreverential, mundane, nasty, obscene, pagan, profanatory, raunchy, sacrilegious, sinful, smutty, temporal, transient, transitory, unconsecrated, ungodly, unhallowed, unholy, unsanctified, vulgar, wicked, worldly |
| Antonyms: | clean, moral, sacred |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sacrilegious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | profane |
| Synonyms: | atheistic, blasphemous, desecrating, dirty*, filthy*, foul, godless, heathen, impious, indecent, infidel, irreligious, irreverent, irreverential, obscene, pagan, sinful, ungodly, unhallowed, unholy, violating |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | skeptic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is leery, unbelieving |
| Synonyms: | agnostic, apostate, atheist, cynic, disbeliever, dissenter, doubter, doubting Thomas, freethinker, heathen, heretic, infidel, materialist, misanthrope, misbeliever, nihilist, pagan, pessimist, profaner, questioner, rationalist, scoffer, unbeliever |
| Notes: | cynics doubt because they question motives (Cynic was first a school of philosophy expressing contempt for wealth and pleasure; the word cynic comes from Greek cyniko 'doglike'); skeptics doubt reports of what they hear or read |
| Antonyms: | believer, devotee, disciple |
| Main Entry: | nonbeliever |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unbeliever |
| Synonyms: | agnostic, atheist, doubter, heathen, infidel, pagan, skeptic |
| Antonyms: | believer |
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