Synonyms of nonsectarian

nonsectarian

adjective

as in nondenominational

Synonyms & Similar Words

• nondenominational
• atheistic
• secular
• earthly
• laic
• irreligious
• lay
• pagan
• nonclerical
• godless
• worldly
• terrestrial
• nonreligious
• mundane
• laical
• religionless
• physical
• temporal
• terrene
• substantial
• corporal
• irreverent
• paganish
• blasphemous
• profane
• bodily
• impious
• sacrilegious
• material
• carnal
• unconsecrated
• fleshly
• unhallowed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• religious
• spiritual
• sacred
• divine
• holy
• pious
• sacrosanct
• devout
• reverent
• metaphysical
• prayerful
• consecrated
• godly
• worshipful
• hallowed
• insubstantial
• immaterial
• ethereal
• churchly
• unsubstantial
• nonphysical
• sanctified
• incorporeal
• bodiless

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of nonsectarian

Founded under the auspices of a Jewish institution, Yeshiva University, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine was nonsectarian from its start and the great physicist freely gave his name. —New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 3 Mar. 2024

And state laws require that curriculum be nonsectarian. —Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2024

Brandeis was established as a nonsectarian school but it was founded with support from the Jewish community, and it was named after former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, the highest court’s first Jewish member. —Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2024

For example, even though Iran and Saudi Arabia are bitter enemies, both tend to view Iraq through a similar confessional prism (albeit taking different sides in the sectarian competition), while Washington's vision of Iraq as a nonsectarian state is closer to Syria's and Turkey's. —Robert Malley, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2010