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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | 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: | 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 |
| Main Entry: | pagan |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irreligious |
| Synonyms: | agnostic, atheistic, heathen, idolatrous, impious, infidel, polytheistic, profane |
| Antonyms: | believing, religious |
| Main Entry: | skeptical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disbelieving, leery |
| Synonyms: | agnostic, aporetic, cynical, dissenting, doubtful, doubting, dubious, freethinking, hesitating, incredulous, mistrustful, questioning, quizzical, scoffing, show-me, suspicious, unbelieving, unconvinced |
| Antonyms: | believing, devoted, undoubting |
| Main Entry: | unbelieving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | skeptical |
| Synonyms: | agnostic, cynical, disbelieving, distrustful, doubtful, doubting, dubious, freethinking, leery, mistrustful, nonbelieving, not born yesterday, questioning, show-me, suspicious, unconvinced |
| Main Entry: | atheistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unreligious |
| Synonyms: | agnostic, disbelieving, godless, irreligious, nonbelieving, nonreligious, unbelieving, ungodly |
| Antonyms: | God-fearing, believing, religious |
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