misbeliever

noun

Definition of misbelievernext
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for misbeliever
  1. atheist
  2. unbeliever
  3. nonbeliever
  4. pagan
  5. infidel
  6. miscreant
  7. gentile
Noun
  • Currently, roughly 70 percent of active-duty personnel identify as Christian, with substantial numbers of atheists, agnostics, Jews, Muslims, and affiliates of Eastern religions in the ranks.
    Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
  • My father was a strict atheist, and my mother was agnostic.
    Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of atheist
Noun
  • An app called Krishna, for example, has already advised killing unbelievers and supporting India's ruling party.
    Scott Shapiro, WIRED, 8 Jan. 2024
  • To have reservations about something that is treated as sacrosanct is to be an unbeliever, or worse, a heretic, and thus someone to be cast out.
    Ian Buruma, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
Definition of unbeliever
Noun
  • But in reality, those arrested were deemed kafirs, or nonbelievers.
    Vera Mironova, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2017
  • To have a follower recount a feat of superhuman strength, or even an apparition, is hard for a layperson to fathom but has the advantage of having happened in the past and out of the view of nonbelievers.
    Michelle Weber, Longreads, 8 Nov. 2024
Definition of nonbeliever
Noun
  • Church officials decided to recognize Dec. 25 as his birthday, probably to coincide with the date of pagan festivals in an attempt to get pagans to accept Christianity as the official religion.
    Atlanta Life, ajc, 10 Nov. 2017
  • While plague stalks the land, paranoid peasants swap cautionary folk tales about evil spirits, pagans, Jews and other outsiders.
    Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2017
Definition of pagan
Noun
  • Some of their treasured possessions—bicycles, snowboards, trophies—would identify them as infidels and put their lives in danger.
    Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 5 Nov. 2024
  • In 1935, Pope Pius XI openly supported the invasion of Ethiopia as a crusade against a country of heretics, schismatics, pagans, and infidels.
    Ian Campbell, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2022
Definition of infidel
Noun
  • Brothers Jeff and Steven McDonald helped put SoCal punk on the map in the late 1970s as teenage miscreants in Redd Kross, and now their unique tale is being told in the documentary Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story, which will be screening throughout the U.S. in December and January.
    SPIN Staff, SPIN, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Greed, graft and the rise of the machine Chicago’s legacy of political greed is generations in the making, likely originating as early land swindlers, gamblers, merchants and miscreants settled in by the lake.
    Ray Long, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2024
Definition of miscreant
Noun
  • The legislation, which was enacted by Israel’s parliament in 1950, was designed to strengthen the creation of a Jewish state by welcoming people whose mothers or grandmothers were Jews, as well as gentiles who had converted to Judaism.
    Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Nov. 2024
  • There was constant fighting between the gentile and the Jewish children.
    Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2024
Definition of gentile
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