| 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: | atheist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonbeliever |
Synonyms: |
agnostic, free thinker, heathen, infidel, irreligionist, pagan, skeptic |
| Notes: | an agnostic is one who believes that it is impossible to know whether there is a God; an atheist is one who disbelieves or denies the existence of God or gods |
| Main Entry: | infidel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonbeliever |
Synonyms: |
agnostic, atheist, gentile, heathen, heretic, nonworshiper, pagan, unbeliever |
| 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: | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Antonyms: |
believer, devotee, disciple |
| Main Entry: | iconoclastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irreligious |
Synonyms: |
fanatical, heathen, heathenish, heretical, impious |