unreligious
having no connection with or relation to religion; neither religious nor irreligious; nonreligious: His thinking, while unreligious, did not oppose religion.
Origin of unreligious
1Other words from unreligious
- un·re·li·gious·ly, adverb
Words that may be confused with unreligious
- irreligious, sacrilegious, unreligious
Words Nearby unreligious
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How to use unreligious in a sentence
Modern democracy is often looked upon as something peculiarly secular, unreligious, or even irreligious in its origin.
Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century | Charles MorrisHe was essentially unreligious, unphilosophic, true to his own instincts, but indifferent to all matters that lay beyond them.
The Life of Bret Harte | Henry Childs MerwinNine officers of the escort stayed the communion to-day, which is a great many for so unreligious a country as India.
Up the Country | Emily EdenThey were serious people in an unreligious way, or rather an unecclesiastical way.
The Daughter of the Storage | William Dean HowellsIt can't be called an attack unless you feel that the mere mention of an unreligious idea is an attack on religion.
The Trial of Callista Blake | Edgar Pangborn
British Dictionary definitions for unreligious
/ (ˌʌnrɪˈlɪdʒəs) /
another word for irreligious
secular
Derived forms of unreligious
- unreligiously, adverb
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