antireligious

adjective

Definition of antireligiousnext
as in irreligious

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for antireligious
  1. irreligious
  2. godless
  3. impious
  4. secular
  5. faithless
  6. blasphemous
  7. unholy
  8. irreverent
Adjective
  • Finishing off the top 5 is religious flick The Forge with an irreligious weekend take-home of $6.6.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2024
  • From its earliest days in the nineteenth century and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist movement, which at the time was led by irreligious Jews.
    Elliott Abrams, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2011
Definition of irreligious
Adjective
  • Clearly the most godless Man of God Garfield has played — the one-two of playing a televangelist here and a Mormon cop in Under the Banner of Heaven makes for a religious diptych that’s uniquely American. tick, tick … BOOM!
    Rory Doherty, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2024
  • His notoriously pornographic breakthrough novel, The Elementary Particles, trafficked in masturbation, flashing, orgies, and child rape but really amounted to a diatribe against a godless materialism.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
Definition of godless
Adjective
  • This game must have seemed profane to the Greeks, or even impious.
    Simone Weil, Harper's Magazine, 2 July 2024
  • Both narratives, private and public, differently restrict our access, so the ideal historian will need great tact and an impious curiosity.
    James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
Definition of impious
Adjective
  • The company is set to benefit from strong secular demand trends and superior earnings visibility, the investment bank said in a Jan. 2 research note.
    Amala Balakrishner, CNBC, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Society Who Gets to be An Atheist? andrea bennett, Kim Fu Some non-believers are working to combat white male dominance within the movement and make room for everyone to explore secular community.
    hazlitt.net, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
Definition of secular
Adjective
  • Once lost, now found, Ms. Brady offered the closing prayer as the smell of meatloaf promised lunch for the faithful and faithless alike.
    Moriah Ratner, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
  • Men are a structuring absence, as they are spoken of as faithless husbands, potential fiancés, feckless sons.
    John Bleasdale, Variety, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of faithless
Adjective
  • However, the group is often met with pushback from Christians, who view Satanism as an illegitimate religion and a blasphemous group that should not be entitled to First Amendment protections.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
  • The images, which many Muslims considered blasphemous, were at the heart of the controversy that led to Paty's death.
    Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of blasphemous
Adjective
  • Art and commerce are unholy bedfellows, and nowhere more so than in the music industry — never a savory business, not in the mob days and not now.
    Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 16 Jan. 2025
  • An unholy chatter fills the soundtrack and what appears to be dozens upon dozens of shiny black bugs squirming and gnashing as each other.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2025
Definition of unholy
Adjective
  • For The Win's daily sports newsletter pairs the latest news from around the sports world with the smartest − yet somewhat irreverent – takes from FTW's staff.
    Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2025
  • The 2025 edition of the Sundance Film Festival—poised to run from January 23 to February 2 in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah—finds the beloved mountainside showcase at its most idiosyncratic: starry, of course, but also independently minded, irreverent, and often delightfully weird.
    Radhika Seth, Vogue, 11 Jan. 2025
Definition of irreverent
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