irreligious
[ir-i-lij-uh s]
- not religious; not practicing a religion and feeling no religious impulses or emotions.
- showing or characterized by a lack of religion.
- showing indifference or hostility to religion: irreligious statements.
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Origin of irreligious
Synonyms
See more synonyms for irreligious on Thesaurus.com3. profane, sacrilegious, ungodly.
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Examples from the Web for irreligious
Contemporary Examples
For irreligious people, this is a potential outrage of the first order.
He is irreligious in the conventional sense, but his world teems with beliefs.
Nigeria’s Larger-Than-Life Nobel Laureate Chronicles a Fascinating LifeChimamanda Adichie
August 9, 2014
“Feminism” is now unfairly associated with a certain kind of privileged, coastal, irreligious white woman.
Akkari and Laban had long been disaffected with life in Denmark, a country they saw as louche and irreligious.
The party of Obama is increasingly unmarried and irreligious, a shift that could help the GOP build a new majority.
Why Demographic Shifts on Religion and Marriage Could Doom the Democratic PartyMichael Medved
November 22, 2011
Historical Examples
Father Sergius knew this common, cold, conventional, and most irreligious type.
Father SergiusLeo Tolstoy
I can be religious and irreligious,' he said; 'I can be anything or nothing.
BunyanJames Anthony Froude
We do not want to proclaim ourselves an irreligious or a religious people.
Yezd, who succeeded his father, was a very licentious and irreligious man.
The Faith of IslamEdward Sell
This does not imply that it is irreligious, nor unreligious, nor sacrilegious.
The New Avatar and The Destiny of the SoulJirah D. Buck
irreligious
- lacking in, indifferent to, or opposed to religious faith
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Word Origin and History for irreligious
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