antireligious

adjective

Definition of antireligiousnext
as in irreligious

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for antireligious
  1. irreligious
  2. godless
  3. impious
  4. secular
  5. faithless
  6. blasphemous
  7. unholy
  8. irreverent
Adjective
  • Finishing off the top 5 is religious flick The Forge with an irreligious weekend take-home of $6.6.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2024
  • From its earliest days in the nineteenth century and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist movement, which at the time was led by irreligious Jews.
    Elliott Abrams, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2011
Definition of irreligious
Adjective
  • Clearly the most godless Man of God Garfield has played — the one-two of playing a televangelist here and a Mormon cop in Under the Banner of Heaven makes for a religious diptych that’s uniquely American. tick, tick … BOOM!
    Rory Doherty, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2024
  • His notoriously pornographic breakthrough novel, The Elementary Particles, trafficked in masturbation, flashing, orgies, and child rape but really amounted to a diatribe against a godless materialism.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
Definition of godless
Adjective
  • This game must have seemed profane to the Greeks, or even impious.
    Simone Weil, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • Both narratives, private and public, differently restrict our access, so the ideal historian will need great tact and an impious curiosity.
    James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
Definition of impious
Adjective
  • Separated a documentary film directed by Errol Morris Adam Kirsch In Search of Fullness In his new book, the philosopher Charles Taylor looks at modern poetry as a unique record of spiritual experience in a secular age.
    Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2024
  • The analysts said electricity demand is entering an era of secular growth driven by electrical infrastructure investments over the coming years.
    Paulina Likos, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of secular
Adjective
  • But, these faithless actors have never changed the outcome of an election.
    Solcyré Burga, TIME, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Since Biden is no longer in the running, they won't be considered faithless.
    Kaleigh Rogers, ABC News, 23 July 2024
Definition of faithless
Adjective
  • Many Muslims consider depictions of prophets to be blasphemous.
    Reuters, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Other critics have called the Trump Bible blasphemous.
    Richard Lardner and Dake Kang, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024
Definition of blasphemous
Adjective
  • After all, nothing says family reunion like depicting the unholy alliance between an evil gay billionaire and Hulk Hogan.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Thousands of them had massed at the base for an unholy pilgrimage.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
Definition of unholy
Adjective
  • The three books so far are deeply romantic, gorgeously tragic, smart as hell, and written in this absurd baroque, irreverent language.
    Constance Grady, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
  • For The Win's daily sports newsletter pairs the latest news from around the sports world with the smartest − yet somewhat irreverent – takes from FTW's staff.
    Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of irreverent
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