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| Main Entry: | sectarian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | narrow-minded, exclusive |
| Synonyms: | bigoted, clannish, dissident, doctrinaire, dogmatic, fanatic, fanatical, insular, limited, local, nonconforming, nonconformist, parochial, partisan, provincial, rigid, skeptical, splinter, cliquish, factional, hidebound, schismatic, small-town |
| Notes: | sectarian means of or relating to or characteristic of a sect or sects, while secular means not specifically relating to religion or to a religious body or not religious or spiritual in nature |
| Antonyms: | broad, broad-minded, liberal, nonsectarian |
| Main Entry: | sectarian |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is narrow-minded |
| Synonyms: | adherent, bigot, cohort, disciple, dissenter, dissident, extremist, fanatic, heretic, maverick, nonconformist, partisan, radical, rebel, revolutionary, satellite, supporter, zealot, dogmatist, misbeliever, schismatic, separatist, true believer |
| Antonyms: | liberal, nonsectarian |
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| Main Entry: | bigot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intolerant, prejudiced person |
| Synonyms: | chauvinist, diehard, doctrinaire, enthusiast, extremist, fanatic, fiend, maniac, partisan, puritan, racist, sectarian, stickler, zealot, dogmatist, monomaniac, opinionated person, persecutor, segregationist, sexist, superpatriot |
| Antonyms: | humanitarian, liberal, tolerator |
| Main Entry: | bigoted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intolerant, prejudiced |
| Synonyms: | biased, dogmatic, narrow, narrow-minded, obstinate, opinionated, partial, partisan, sectarian, slanted, small-minded, twisted, unfair, chauvinistic, warped |
| Antonyms: | broad-minded, fair, humanitarian, just, open-minded, tolerant, unprejudiced |
| Main Entry: | clannish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exclusive, select |
| Synonyms: | akin, alike, close, insular, like, narrow, related, reserved, restrictive, sectarian, unfriendly, associative, cliquish, restricting, unreceptive |
| Antonyms: | friendly, open, welcoming |
| Main Entry: | dissident |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disagreeing, differing |
| Synonyms: | discordant, heretical, heterodox, nonconformist, sectarian, unorthodox, dissentient, dissenting, schismatic |
| Antonyms: | agreeing, conforming |
| Main Entry: | ecclesiastical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | churchly |
| Synonyms: | clerical, holy, ministerial, orthodox, parochial, pastoral, religious, sectarian, spiritual, diaconal, episcopal |
| Main Entry: | factious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conflicting, warring |
| Synonyms: | alienated, belligerent, contentious, contumacious, disaffected, disputatious, dissident, divisive, fighting, hostile, insubordinate, insurgent, litigious, malcontent, mutinous, partisan, quarrelsome, rebellious, refractory, rival, sectarian, seditious, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent, contending, estranged, insurrectionary, troublemaking |
| Antonyms: | agreeing, cooperating, cooperative, peaceful, united |
| Main Entry: | heretical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unorthodox |
| Synonyms: | agnostic, apostate, atheistic, disagreeing, dissident, heterodox, iconoclastic, idolatrous, impious, infidel, miscreant, nonconformist, sectarian, skeptical, unbelieving, differing, dissenting, dissentive, freethinking, misbelieving, revisionist, schismatic |
| Antonyms: | orthodox |
| Main Entry: | local |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | of a community, restricted to immediate area |
| Synonyms: | bounded, civic, confined, district, geographical, insular, legendary, limited, narrow, neighborhood, parish, parochial, provincial, regional, sectarian, sectional, territorial, town, vernacular, divisional, small-town |
| Antonyms: | foreign, nonnative |
| Main Entry: | nonconformist |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unwilling to behave, believe as most do |
| Synonyms: | beatnik*, bohemian*, dissident, freak*, heretical, heterodox, hippie*, iconoclastic, maverick, oddball, offbeat, original, rebel, sectarian, unorthodox, weird*, schismatic, swinger |
| Antonyms: | conforming, conformist, orthodox, obeying |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | parochial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | narrow-minded, restricted |
| Synonyms: | biased, bigoted, conservative, conventional, insular, limited, local, narrow, petty, prejudiced, provincial, regional, sectarian, sectional, shallow, small-minded, inward-looking, small-town |
| Antonyms: | broad, liberal, unrestricted |
| Main Entry: | partisan |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | interested, factional |
| Synonyms: | accessory, biased, bigoted, blind, colored, devoted, diehard*, exclusive, fanatic, jaundiced, one-sided, partial, prejudiced, prepossessed, sectarian, sympathetic, unjust, zealous, adhering, cliquish, conspiratorial, denominational, overzealous, tendentious, unreasoning, warped |
| Antonyms: | disinterested |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | provincial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | countrified; limited |
| Synonyms: | bigoted, bucolic, country, homegrown, homespun, insular, local, narrow, narrow-minded, parochial, pastoral, petty, rude, rural, rustic, sectarian, small-minded, uninformed, unpolished, unsophisticated, hidebound, inward-looking, small-town |
| Antonyms: | liberal, metropolitan, modern, citified |
| Main Entry: | racist |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bigoted |
| Synonyms: | biased, illiberal, intolerant, narrow-minded, opinionated, partial, prejudiced, sectarian, small-minded, anti-Semitic, xenophobic |
| Main Entry: | racist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bigot |
| Synonyms: | chauvinist, diehard, doctrinaire, fanatic, sectarian, anti-Semite, black supremacist, klansperson, opinionated person, prejudiced person, segregationist, sexist person, white supremacist, xenophobe |
| Main Entry: | unorthodox |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abnormal; other than accepted |
| Synonyms: | beatnik*, crazy*, different, dissident, eccentric, far-out, flaky*, heretical, heterodox, irregular, kinky*, nonconformist, off the beaten path*, sectarian, unconventional, unusual, way-out, weird*, schismatic, uncustomary, unwonted |
| Antonyms: | conventional, normal, orthodox, standard |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | heretic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | schismatic |
| Synonyms: | apostate, cynic, pagan, sectarian, skeptic |
| Main Entry: | religious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning belief in divinity |
| Synonyms: | believing, canonical, clerical, devotional, devout, divine, ecclesiastical, god-fearing, godly, holy, ministerial, moral, orthodox, pious, pontifical, pure, reverent, righteous, sacerdotal, sacred, sacrosanct, saintly, scriptural, sectarian, spiritual, supernatural, theological, born-again, churchgoing, churchly, deistic, doctrinal, pietistic, prayerful, priestly, saintlike, theistic |
| Antonyms: | agnostic, atheistic, irreligious, ungodly |
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| Main Entry: | church |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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abbatial, abbatical, antinomian, apostolic, apostolical, archiepiscopal, autocephalous, biblical, canonical, capitular, clerical, conventual, denominational, ecclesiastical, ecclesiological, ecumenical, episcopal, episcopalian, evangelical, evangelistic, hierarchical, hieratic, his eminence, his grace, his holiness, homiletic, in orders, inspired, kaaba, kerygmatic, laical, latitudinarian, lay, litaneutical, ministerial, monachal, monasterial, monastic, monkish, ordained, papable, papal, paparchical, pastoral, pontifical, prelatical, presbyterian, priest, priestly, prophetic, religious, sacerdotal, sacred, scriptural, sectarian, secular, supralapsarian, sybilline, syncretic, syncretical, temporal, textuary, the reverend, the right reverend, the very reverend, theandric, theocentric, theochristic, theocratic, theological, theopneust, theopneustic, trayf, ultramontane, unhouselled, vatic
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