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
  • Silverstein had a much different experience growing up, given the fact that his parents were both Baalei teshuva (irreligious Jews who become more observant later in life).
    — Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
  • 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
Definition of irreligious
Adjective
  • 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
  • The ranks of the godless have stopped growing for now.
    — Lauren Jackson, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
Definition of godless
Adjective
  • The only true dictionary is the lost one, the dictionary of the language that perished when the impious tower was built: the original language, God’s language.
    — Mariana Dimópulos, Harpers Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
  • This game must have seemed profane to the Greeks, or even impious.
    — Simone Weil, Harper's Magazine, 2 July 2024
Definition of impious
Adjective
  • In other words, despite its seeming departure from Maine’s binary logic, the Second World was really a slice of the non-West that, contrary to expectations, embraced an explicitly secular and modernizing agenda: socialism.
    — Zachariah Mampilly, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2025
  • But the church’s decision to make Catholic Charities a separate corporate entity means that this entity is not exempt from the state’s unemployment law — because Catholic Charities itself only provides secular services.
    — Ian Millhiser, Vox, 31 Mar. 2025
Definition of secular
Adjective
  • Don Cheadle and Benicio del Toro are both quite good as part of a team that’s tasked with stealing a secret document, setting the stage for a drama involving gangsters, faithless lovers, and white-collar crooks.
    — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Don Cheadle and Benicio del Toro are both quite good as part of a team that’s tasked with stealing a secret document, setting the stage for a drama involving gangsters, faithless lovers, and white-collar crooks.
    — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
Definition of faithless
Adjective
  • Many Muslims found some of the depictions offensive and even blasphemous.
    — Lola Fadulu, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
  • The piece was dubbed blasphemous by many Muslims and has been banned in Iran since 1988.
    — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 11 Feb. 2025
Definition of blasphemous
Adjective
  • An unholy brew of ownership issues, leadership vacuums, stubbornness, terrible hires and nostalgia forced the orange and blue to spend a decade in the NFL wilderness before Dove Valley tasted the playoffs again.
    — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 23 Mar. 2025
  • This sound, we’re meant to understand, is the unholy sound that the Yellowjackets have been hearing in the woods.
    — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025
Definition of unholy
Adjective
  • Freewheeling in nature and with a knack for mixing eclectic cultures, Yang proposed a thoughtful collection with an irreverent edge, one consistently framed by Yang’s lineup of Asian female protagonists.
    — Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Marking Benna’s feature directorial and editorial debut, André Is an Idiot watches as André, an irreverent man, embarks on an unexpected journey after receiving a terminal diagnosis, determined to maintain his humor while learning to die happily.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 31 Mar. 2025
Definition of irreverent
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