atheistic

adjective

Definition of atheisticnext
as in agnostic

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for atheistic
  1. agnostic
  2. secular
  3. godless
  4. irreligious
  5. blasphemous
  6. impious
  7. irreverent
  8. heretical
Adjective
  • Our role in this is to be agnostic on the policies, but to weigh in on what is operationally feasible.
    Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
  • According to a report from The Pew Center For Research, only 3% of African-American people identified as atheist or agnostic in 2021.
    Maya Richard-Craven, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of agnostic
Adjective
  • Christmas movies—secular and religious—are a great way to remind us that there’s more to this time of year than shopping deals and presents.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Kwanzaa is a cultural holiday, meaning it is not affiliated with any religion and is instead observed along with other major secular and religious holidays.
    Olivia Rose, The Arizona Republic, 3 Dec. 2024
Definition of secular
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
  • 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
  • The publication led to global outrage, with many Muslims finding the depictions highly offensive and blasphemous.
    The Arizona Republic, The Arizona Republic, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Rushdie’s fourth fictional novel ran into a global controversy shortly after its publication in September 1988, as some Muslims saw passages about Prophet Muhammad as blasphemous.
    Reuters, NBC News, 8 Nov. 2024
Definition of blasphemous
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
  • Questions as fun and irreverent as these are asked and answered in STAR BOUND: A Beginner’s Guide to the American Space Program, from Goddard’s Rockets to Goldilocks Planets and Everything In Between.
    Rebecca Coffey, Forbes, 17 Dec. 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, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of irreverent
Adjective
  • Al-Assad was part of the Alawite community, a group seen as heretical by some opposition fighters.
    Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Cities Start to Question an American Ideal: A House With a Yard on Every Lot Single-family zoning is practically gospel in America, but a number of officials across the country are starting to make seemingly heretical moves. Sept. 2019 56.
    The Upshot Staff, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2024
Definition of heretical
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Thesaurus Entries Near atheistic

atheist

atheistic

atheists

See More Nearby Entries 

Cite this Entry

“Atheistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/atheistic. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

Copy Citation

Share

More from Merriam-Webster on atheistic

Nglish: Translation of atheistic for Spanish Speakers

Britannica English: Translation of atheistic for Arabic Speakers

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!

Popular in Grammar & Usage

See All

Point of View: It's Personal

Plural and Possessive Names: A Guide

What's the difference between 'fascism' and 'socialism'?

More Commonly Misspelled Words

Words You Always Have to Look Up
See All

Popular in Wordplay

See All

8 Words with Fascinating Histories

8 Words for Lesser-Known Musical Instruments

Birds Say the Darndest Things

10 Words from Taylor Swift Songs (Merriam's Version)

10 Scrabble Words Without Any Vowels
See All

Games & Quizzes

See All
Play Quordle: Guess all four words in a limited number of tries. Each of your guesses must be a real 5-letter word.
Quordle Can you solve 4 words at once?
Play Blossom: Solve today's spelling word game by finding as many words as you can using just 7 letters. Longer words score more points.
Blossom Word Game Pick the best words!
Play Missing Letter: a crossword with a twist. Each of the 25 puzzle words start with a different letter of the alphabet. Which letter is missing?
Missing Letter A daily crossword with a twist
naughty or nice
Are you naughty or nice? Quiz He's making a quiz, and checking it twice...