Meaning of IRRELIGIOUS
| Pronunciation: | | `iri'lijus
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[adj] hostile or indifferent to religion |
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IRRELIGIOUS is a 11 letter word that starts with I. |
| | Synonyms: | | atheistic, atheistical, heathen, heathenish, impious, lapsed, nonchurchgoing, nonobservant, pagan, unbelieving, ungodly |
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| | Antonyms: | | religious | | | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ir`re*li"gious\, a. [L. irreligiosus: cf. F.
irr['e]ligieux.]
1. Destitute of religion; not controlled by religious motives
or principles; ungodly. Cf. {Impious}.
Shame and reproach are generally the portion of the
impious and irreligious. --South.
2. Indicating a want of religion; profane; wicked; as,
irreligious speech.
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| | Related Terms: | | amoral, apostate, atheistic, backsliding, blasphemous, creedless, disbelieving, faithless, fallen, fallen from grace, godless, heretical, impious, incredulous, indevout, irreverent, lapsed, minimifidian, nonbelieving, nonreligious, nullifidian, profanatory, profane, recidivist, recidivistic, recreant, renegade, repudiative, sacrilegious, sinful, unangelic, unbelieving, unchristian, un-Christly, unconfident, unconverted, unconvinced, undevout, undutiful, ungodly, unholy, unmoral, unreligious, unrighteous, unsaintly, wicked, without faith |
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