antireligious
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7.4
- adjective
- /ˌæntiˈrɪlɪdʒəs/
- 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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6.8
Not accepting the idea of God or other religious ideas
3
8.6
Not interested in religion or being against it
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8.6
Not supporting religion or religious groups
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9.9
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'.