antireligious
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7.4
- adjective
- /ˌæntiˈrɪlɪdʒəs/
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antirreligioso
- Political Zionism had many variants, but its dominant strain was secular and often antireligious.
- nonreligious or even antireligious
Examples
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In striking contrast with Freud and most other Western psychoanalysts, their Indian colleagues did not express any distinctly antireligious attitudes.
Academic text (1990) -
Convinced that religion has a mission in society, they are unhappy with a state that maintains its neutrality between religious, nonreligious, and even antireligious forces.
Academic text (1996) -
I'm an atheist, but you people are way too antireligious.
Blog text (23) -
It's a humorous commentary on the knee-jerk nature of antireligious speech!
Blog text (16) -
In response, church spokesmen attacked the political motives behind the letter, which they attributed to antireligious elements within the education ministry.
Academic text (2007) -
Like religious fundamentalism, nonreligious and antireligious political ideologies have also rejected scientific evidence when it conflicts with their tenets.
Academic text (2010) -
A striking example of this antireligious doctrine put into action, and of the response, is Budapest's Magna Domina Hungarorum Church, better known as Regnum Marianum.
Academic text (2000) -
Indeed, woven into the Enlightenment worldview at a basic, presuppositional level is an antireligious bias (Gellner, 1992; Gray, 2008).
Academic text (2009) -
Knowing that a narrowly defined religious test would fail in pluralistic America, Federalist strategists framed the question in the broadest possible terms, asking voters if they wished for a religious president or a nonreligious or even antireligious leader.
Academic text (1997) -
Many people find antireligious views expressed in some political discussions quite troubling.
Synonyms
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Not interested in religion or being against it
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Not accepting the idea of God or other religious ideas
Not supporting religion or religious groups
Strongly against religion and the idea of God
Antonyms
How Religious
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word antireligious starts with the prefix anti- meaning 'against', as in antiwar, and ends with religious, from religion meaning 'beliefs about God'. So, antireligious describes being 'opposed to religion'.