as in atheistical
lacking religious emotions, principles, or practices
raised in an irreligious family where the subject of God was never even discussed
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Recent Examples of irreligious
The regional and Wordsum difference remains even among those who are fundamentalists or irreligious.
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Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2010
Please note that ~20% of the population rejects an afterlife, a higher proportion than those who are irreligious, or atheists or agnostics.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 13 Sep. 2010
Similarly, Catholics have been the biggest contributors in the past decade to the irreligious segment of Americans.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2010
Conservative religiosity is of course not a requirement for autocracy – just look at the previous era of Russian autocracy, which was decidedly irreligious.
—Jill Filipovic, CNN, 21 Feb. 2023
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Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2010
Please note that ~20% of the population rejects an afterlife, a higher proportion than those who are irreligious, or atheists or agnostics.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 13 Sep. 2010
Similarly, Catholics have been the biggest contributors in the past decade to the irreligious segment of Americans.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2010
Conservative religiosity is of course not a requirement for autocracy – just look at the previous era of Russian autocracy, which was decidedly irreligious.
—Jill Filipovic, CNN, 21 Feb. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irreligious
Adjective
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Compared with the heavenly bliss promised at the end of Revelation, Byron’s godless planet was bleak stuff indeed.—
Jennifer Szalai,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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The personal abjection in McGahern’s novels is best understood as an allegory of social despair, which is in turn allegorical of a godless existence.—
Sam Sacks,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The following year, city and state education officials determined that 18 Hasidic yeshivas were not providing a basic nonreligious education.—
Eliza Shapiro,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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Those of us who are religious must stand with our religious and nonreligious neighbors to have the moral imagination to cast visions for a world where political solutions are our friends and companion — not violence.—
Austin American-Statesman,
Austin American-Statesman,
6 Mar. 2024
Adjective
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Allen's defense team aggressively pushed their theory that Odinists, members of a pagan Norse religion hijacked by white nationalists, killed the girls during a sacrificial ritual in the woods.—
Kristine Phillips,
The Indianapolis Star,
13 Nov. 2024
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There’s a lot of folklore, superstition and myth — pagan elements really, that are folded into how people actually practice religion in Ireland.—
Georg Szalai,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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“Irreligious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irreligious. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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